Shaping practices of righteous livelihoods and charitable donations: the role of social mechanisms in the Hòa Hảo Buddhist community in Vietnam
Pursuing righteous livelihoods and making charitable donations can be observed in most religious communities. Research to date suggests that this is due to the impact of religious teachings and religious ethics on believers. However, the process in which these ethics and beliefs are formed has not y...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Journal of contemporary religion
Year: 2025, Volume: 40, Issue: 2, Pages: 275-290 |
| Further subjects: | B
Vietnam
B Righteous livelihood B charitable donations B social mechanisms B Hòa Hảo Buddhist community |
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Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| Summary: | Pursuing righteous livelihoods and making charitable donations can be observed in most religious communities. Research to date suggests that this is due to the impact of religious teachings and religious ethics on believers. However, the process in which these ethics and beliefs are formed has not yet been researched thoroughly. The case of the Hòa Hảo Buddhist community in Vietnam in this study is useful to elucidate how these practices might be formed through the process of socialization. The research in this study investigated the Hòa Hảo Buddhist community in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam. The study employed a mixed method approach, utilizing questionnaires and conducting in-depth interviews between February 2019 and December 2020. The results suggest that social mechanisms play an important role in shaping and reinforcing the believers’ daily practices, most notably in terms of putting righteous livelihoods and charitable donations into practice. These mechanisms include: (1) the tight religious organizational system, (2) religious preaching in the form of folk poetry, (3) co-residence of Hòa Hảo Buddhist believers in the same setting. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-9419 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of contemporary religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/13537903.2025.2510768 |
