Anh Q. Tran
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190677602
- eISBN:
- 9780190677633
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190677602.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
The Introduction gives the background of the significance of translating and study of the text Errors of the Three Religions. The history of the development of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism in ...
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The Introduction gives the background of the significance of translating and study of the text Errors of the Three Religions. The history of the development of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism in Vietnam from their beginning until the eighteenth century is narrated. Particular attention is given to the different manners in which the Three Religions were taken up by nobles and literati, on the one hand, and commoners, on the other. The chapter also presents the pragmatic approach to religion taken by the Vietnamese, which was in part responsible for the receptivity of the Vietnamese to Christianity. The significance of the discovery of Errors and its impact on Vietnamese studies are also discussed.Less
The Introduction gives the background of the significance of translating and study of the text Errors of the Three Religions. The history of the development of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism in Vietnam from their beginning until the eighteenth century is narrated. Particular attention is given to the different manners in which the Three Religions were taken up by nobles and literati, on the one hand, and commoners, on the other. The chapter also presents the pragmatic approach to religion taken by the Vietnamese, which was in part responsible for the receptivity of the Vietnamese to Christianity. The significance of the discovery of Errors and its impact on Vietnamese studies are also discussed.
David G. Marr
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780520274150
- eISBN:
- 9780520954977
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520274150.003.0010
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
In this chapter, Marr shifts his emphasis from the chassis of the Vietnamese revolution to the general political rhetoric that shaped it. For sixteen months following the August Revolution, three ...
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In this chapter, Marr shifts his emphasis from the chassis of the Vietnamese revolution to the general political rhetoric that shaped it. For sixteen months following the August Revolution, three main mobilization patterns (the first millenarian, the second statist, and the last interest based) surfaced. These efforts became catalytic to establishing military diversity in Vietnam and, in doing so, cemented the national weight of patriotism. David Marr examines the resistance of southern Vietnam (Nam Bộ) and efforts of solidarity, eventually concluding with the upwardly mobile outcomes of the revolution: the growing ubiquity of radio, literacy, public service campaigns, and improved healthcare. The chapter concludes with the celebration of Hồ Chí Minh as a national inspiration and frontline aid to the progression of post-revolutionary Vietnam.Less
In this chapter, Marr shifts his emphasis from the chassis of the Vietnamese revolution to the general political rhetoric that shaped it. For sixteen months following the August Revolution, three main mobilization patterns (the first millenarian, the second statist, and the last interest based) surfaced. These efforts became catalytic to establishing military diversity in Vietnam and, in doing so, cemented the national weight of patriotism. David Marr examines the resistance of southern Vietnam (Nam Bộ) and efforts of solidarity, eventually concluding with the upwardly mobile outcomes of the revolution: the growing ubiquity of radio, literacy, public service campaigns, and improved healthcare. The chapter concludes with the celebration of Hồ Chí Minh as a national inspiration and frontline aid to the progression of post-revolutionary Vietnam.
Alexander Soucy
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824835989
- eISBN:
- 9780824871567
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824835989.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This chapter presents a background of the Vietnamese religious landscape and different conceptions about how the supernatural relates to people’s lives. Starting off with descriptions of some of the ...
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This chapter presents a background of the Vietnamese religious landscape and different conceptions about how the supernatural relates to people’s lives. Starting off with descriptions of some of the ways that people approach religion and religious practice, the chapter illustrates the widely different interpretations of being religious in Vietnam. Buddhism cannot be understood through the philosophical content of religious texts. For most practicing Buddhists, what is identified as Buddhism represents only apart of a complex interaction with a supernatural world that is also populated by various other beings that have the power to help or hinder. The chapter ends with the opposing elite view of religion, and how it has played out in recent history.Less
This chapter presents a background of the Vietnamese religious landscape and different conceptions about how the supernatural relates to people’s lives. Starting off with descriptions of some of the ways that people approach religion and religious practice, the chapter illustrates the widely different interpretations of being religious in Vietnam. Buddhism cannot be understood through the philosophical content of religious texts. For most practicing Buddhists, what is identified as Buddhism represents only apart of a complex interaction with a supernatural world that is also populated by various other beings that have the power to help or hinder. The chapter ends with the opposing elite view of religion, and how it has played out in recent history.
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190677602
- eISBN:
- 9780190677633
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190677602.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has constituted a significant presence in the country since its arrival in the sixteenth century. This translation and analytical study of a 1752 ...
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Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has constituted a significant presence in the country since its arrival in the sixteenth century. This translation and analytical study of a 1752 document entitled Tam Giáo Chư Vọng [Errors of the Three Religions] adds to the knowledge of its early history within its cultural and religious contexts. This anonymous manuscript paints a rich picture of the three traditional Vietnamese religions (Tam Giáo), i.e., Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. Aiming at the new converts, the writer describes the “errors” (Chư Vọng) of these traditional beliefs and religious practices and provides an apologetics for the Christian doctrines. Structured as a dialogue between a Christian priest and a Confucian scholar, the work explains and evaluates many religious customs and rituals of eighteenth-century Vietnam—many of which are still in practice today. In addition, it contains a trove of information on the challenges and struggles that Vietnamese Christian converts had to face in following the new faith. Beside its enormous historical value for studies on Vietnamese religions, language, and culture, this manuscript raises contemporary and highly complex issues concerning the encounter between Christianity and other religions, Christian missions, religious pluralism, interreligious dialogue, and the dialogue between Christianity and cultures.Less
Though a minority religion in Vietnam, Christianity has constituted a significant presence in the country since its arrival in the sixteenth century. This translation and analytical study of a 1752 document entitled Tam Giáo Chư Vọng [Errors of the Three Religions] adds to the knowledge of its early history within its cultural and religious contexts. This anonymous manuscript paints a rich picture of the three traditional Vietnamese religions (Tam Giáo), i.e., Confucianism, Buddhism, and Daoism. Aiming at the new converts, the writer describes the “errors” (Chư Vọng) of these traditional beliefs and religious practices and provides an apologetics for the Christian doctrines. Structured as a dialogue between a Christian priest and a Confucian scholar, the work explains and evaluates many religious customs and rituals of eighteenth-century Vietnam—many of which are still in practice today. In addition, it contains a trove of information on the challenges and struggles that Vietnamese Christian converts had to face in following the new faith. Beside its enormous historical value for studies on Vietnamese religions, language, and culture, this manuscript raises contemporary and highly complex issues concerning the encounter between Christianity and other religions, Christian missions, religious pluralism, interreligious dialogue, and the dialogue between Christianity and cultures.
Janet Alison Hoskins
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824840044
- eISBN:
- 9780824868611
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824840044.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Religious Studies
Caodaism, Vietnam’s third largest religion with four million followers, is now a major world religion. Colorful and strikingly eclectic, it incorporates Chinese, Buddhist and Western traditions along ...
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Caodaism, Vietnam’s third largest religion with four million followers, is now a major world religion. Colorful and strikingly eclectic, it incorporates Chinese, Buddhist and Western traditions along with more recent world figures like Victor Hugo, Jeanne d’Arc, Lenin and (in the USA) the Mormon founder Joseph Smith. Sometimes described as “outrageously syncretistic”, its combination of different elements has been seen as an excessive, even trangressive combination of the traditions of Asia and the West. Caodaism emerged in the 1920s during the struggle against colonialism in French Indochina. Millions converted in the first few decades, and Caodaists played important roles in the nationalist movement and the American war in Vietnam. Communist victory in 1975 led to severe restrictions inside Vietnam, but Caodaism flourished in the diaspora in the US, France, Australia and Canada. The lives of religious founders from the Caodai “the age of revelations” (1925-1934) are contrasted with experiences of their disciples and descendants in the “age of diaspora” (1975-present) when many Caodaists went into exile. Paired biographies of founders and followers show the tension between initial religious inspiration and diasporic re-interpretations in a new context, as the religion has achieved a global outreach on both sides of the Pacific.Less
Caodaism, Vietnam’s third largest religion with four million followers, is now a major world religion. Colorful and strikingly eclectic, it incorporates Chinese, Buddhist and Western traditions along with more recent world figures like Victor Hugo, Jeanne d’Arc, Lenin and (in the USA) the Mormon founder Joseph Smith. Sometimes described as “outrageously syncretistic”, its combination of different elements has been seen as an excessive, even trangressive combination of the traditions of Asia and the West. Caodaism emerged in the 1920s during the struggle against colonialism in French Indochina. Millions converted in the first few decades, and Caodaists played important roles in the nationalist movement and the American war in Vietnam. Communist victory in 1975 led to severe restrictions inside Vietnam, but Caodaism flourished in the diaspora in the US, France, Australia and Canada. The lives of religious founders from the Caodai “the age of revelations” (1925-1934) are contrasted with experiences of their disciples and descendants in the “age of diaspora” (1975-present) when many Caodaists went into exile. Paired biographies of founders and followers show the tension between initial religious inspiration and diasporic re-interpretations in a new context, as the religion has achieved a global outreach on both sides of the Pacific.
Anh Q. Tran
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190677602
- eISBN:
- 9780190677633
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190677602.003.0007
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
What has been done is a preliminary attempt to enter into the world of Vietnamese traditional religions through an analysis of a particular Christian text. This study has explored the issues arising ...
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What has been done is a preliminary attempt to enter into the world of Vietnamese traditional religions through an analysis of a particular Christian text. This study has explored the issues arising from a Christian encounter with Vietnamese culture and religions. What the author claims about the “errors” of the traditional religions of Vietnam reveals more about his view than about the actual beliefs and practices of the adherents of the Three Religions. Despite his limitations, it is possible to test the accuracy of the accounts through a cross-examination of available Chinese and Vietnamese sources. Every recovered bit of information, when used with care, becomes significant in the quest for a more well-rounded understanding of Vietnam’s past.Less
What has been done is a preliminary attempt to enter into the world of Vietnamese traditional religions through an analysis of a particular Christian text. This study has explored the issues arising from a Christian encounter with Vietnamese culture and religions. What the author claims about the “errors” of the traditional religions of Vietnam reveals more about his view than about the actual beliefs and practices of the adherents of the Three Religions. Despite his limitations, it is possible to test the accuracy of the accounts through a cross-examination of available Chinese and Vietnamese sources. Every recovered bit of information, when used with care, becomes significant in the quest for a more well-rounded understanding of Vietnam’s past.
