Tâm T. T. Ngô

The New Way (eBook, ePUB)

Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the mid-1980s, a radio program with a compelling spiritual message was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam's remote northern highlands. The Protestant evangelical communication had been created in the Hmong language by the Far East Broadcasting Company specifically for war refugees in Laos. The Vietnamese Hmong related the content to their traditional expectation of salvation by a Hmong messiah-king who would lead them out of subjugation, and they appropriated the evangelical message for themselves.

Today, the New Way (Kev Cai Tshiab) has some three hundred thousand followers in Vietnam. Tam T. T. Ngo reveals the complex politics of religion and ethnic relations in contemporary Vietnam and illuminates the dynamic interplay between local and global forces, socialist and postsocialist state building, cold war and postcold war antagonisms, Hmong transnationalism, and U.S.-led evangelical expansionism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295806655
• Artikelnr.: 49045746

Autorenporträt

Tam T. T. Ngo is a research fellow in the Department of Religious Diversity at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Goettingen, Germany. She received her PhD in anthropology from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2011. This is her first book.