Race as a Religious Destiny: the Vietnamese as “God’s Chosen People” in French Indochina
In 1926, a new syncretistic religion was founded by the educated butdis-enfranchised Vietnamese employees of the French colonial administra-tion in Saigon, Indochina. “Caodaism” (the worship of the “highest power”)was socially called “The Great Way of the Third Era of Redemption” (Đại ĐạoTam Kỳ Phổ Độ), and presented an Asian fusion of millenarian and monothe-istic beliefs
Race as a Religious Destiny: the Vietnamese as “God’s Chosen People” in French Indochina
In 1926, a new syncretistic religion was founded by the educated butdis-enfranchised Vietnamese employees of the French colonial administra-tion in Saigon, Indochina. “Caodaism” (the worship of the “highest power”)was socially called “The Great Way of the Third Era of Redemption” (Đại ĐạoTam Kỳ Phổ Độ), and presented an Asian fusion of millenarian and monothe-istic beliefs