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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
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Overseas MissionsAuthor
Janet HoskinsNumber of page(s)
42Published in
2023Language
EnglishCurrent number of books
13Books by same author
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Janet Hoskins Professor of Anthropology and Religion University of Southern California
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The Role of Victor Hugo in Caodaism
Janet Hoskins Professor of Anthropology and Religion University of Southern California