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The new way : Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam
- Title
- The new way : Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam / Tâm T.T. Ngô.
- Author
- Ngo, Tam T. T., 1980-
- Publication
- Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Description
- xi, 211 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Traces the unique route through which Hmong in Vietnam discovered Christianity and appropriated it for themselves. Although a significant proportion of Vietnam's population has been Catholic since the days of French colonialism, the Hmong continued animistic spiritual practices shared across Hmong populations throughout Southeast Asia in the remote highland areas where most of them lived. After the Vietnam War, the Far East Broadcasting Company started an evangelical program in Hmong language targeting war refugees in Laos. In the mid-1980s this radio signal was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam's Northern Highland, who related the content to their traditional expectation of salvation by a Hmong messiah-king who would lead them out of subjugation. Actual missionaries, mostly Laotian Hmong refugees in the US, eventually arrived to help them routinize their new Protestant faith. Today, this New Way (Kev Cai Tshiab) is the claimed religion of roughly one third of a million Hmong in Vietnam. This ethngraphic study describes what happened when some Hmong decided to become Protestants while many of their kin kept their traditional religion, how the communist state views their religious activities, and the global dimensions of Hmong Protestant life. Hmong conversion serves as a lens for viewing the complex politics of religion and ethnic relations in contemporary Vietnam and illuminates larger issues such as the dynamic interplay between local and global forces, socialist and post-socialist state-building, Cold War and post-Cold War antagonisms, Hmong transnationalism, and US-led evangelical expansionism"--
- Series Statement
- Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies
- Uniform Title
- Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies.
- Alternative Title
- Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Church history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.
- Contents
- The Hmong in Vietnam -- The short-waved faith -- Remittance of faith and modernity -- Millenarianism and conversion -- Not by rice alone -- State, church, and community -- Transformation of morality and subjectivity.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-8429
- ISBN
- 9780295998275
- 029599827X
- LCCN
- 2016015368
- OCLC
- 933273625
- Author
- Ngo, Tam T. T., 1980- author.
- Title
- The new way : Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam / Tâm T.T. Ngô.
- Publisher
- Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studiesCritical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-8429