Race, Gender, and Religion in the Vietnamese Diaspora: The New Chosen People

This book examines how the racialization of religion facilitates the diasporic formation of ethnic Vietnamese in the U.S. and Cambodia, two communities that have been separated from one another for nearly 30 years. It compares devotion to female religious figures in two minority religions, the Virgi...

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Main Author: Ninh, Thien-Huong T. (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2017
In:Year: 2017
Series/Journal:Christianities of the World
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Springer eBook Collection Religion and Philosophy
Further subjects:B Theology
B Religion and sociology
B Religious Studies
B Religion
B Religions
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Parallel Edition:Druckausg.: 978-3-319-57167-6
Printed edition: 9783319571676
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Summary:This book examines how the racialization of religion facilitates the diasporic formation of ethnic Vietnamese in the U.S. and Cambodia, two communities that have been separated from one another for nearly 30 years. It compares devotion to female religious figures in two minority religions, the Virgin Mary among the Catholics and the Mother Goddess among the Caodaists. Visual culture and institutional structures are examined within both communities. Thien-Huong Ninh invites a critical re-thinking of how race, gender, and religion are proxies for understanding, theorizing, and addressing social inequalities within global contexts
1. Contextualizing the Research -- 2. The Virgin Mary as the Mother of the Vietnamese Catholic Diaspora -- 3. Vietnamese Catholic Humanitarian Organizations Across U.S.-Cambodia Borders -- 4. The Caodai Mother Goddess in Diasporic Disjunctures -- 5. Structural Hierarchies and Fragments among Vietnamese Caodaists -- 6: Conclusion
ISBN:3319571680
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57168-3