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The Divine Eye and the Diaspora - Vietnamese Syncretism becomes Transpacific Caodaism (Paperback)
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The Divine Eye and the Diaspora - Vietnamese Syncretism becomes Transpacific Caodaism (Paperback)
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Caodaism is a new religion born in Vietnam during the struggles of
decolonization, shattered and spatially dispersed by cold war
conflicts, now trying to reshape the goals of its four million
followers. Colorful and strikingly syncretistic, it incorporates
elements of Chinese, Buddhist, and Western religions as well as
more recent outstanding world figures like Victor Hugo, Jeanne
d’Arc, Vladimir Lenin, and (in the United States) Joseph Smith,
the founder of Mormonism. The book looks at the connections between
“the age of revelations” (1925–1934) in French Indochina and
the “age of diaspora” (1975–present) when many Caodai leaders
and followers went into exile. Structured in paired biographies to
trace relations between masters and disciples, now separated by
oceans, it focuses on five members of the founding generation and
their followers or descendants in California, showing the
continuing obligation to honor those who forged the initial vision
to “bring the gods of the East and West together.” The
syncretism of the colonialperiod has been transformed by the
experience of exile into a diasporic formation, at the same time
that Caodaism in Vietnam has emerged from a period of severe
restrictions to return to the public arena. Caodaism forces us to
reconsider how anthropologistsstudy religious mixtures in
postcolonial settings, since its dynamics challenge the unconscious
Eurocentrism of our notions of how religions are bounded and
conceptualized.
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