Overview
- Illuminates the power that faith, in partnership with race, serves in the formation of ethnic cultures and diasporic communities
- Focuses on ethnic Vietnamese who are living in the United States and Cambodia, which have the largest overseas Vietnamese populations but were isolated from each other for at least two decades
- Invites a critical re-thinking of how ethnicity, religion, and race are proxies for understanding, theorizing, and addressing social inequalities within global contexts
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Christianities of the World (CHOTW)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines how the racialization of religion facilitates the diasporic formation of ethnic Vietnamese in the U.S. and Cambodia, two communities that have been separated from one another for nearly 30 years. It compares devotion to female religious figures in two minority religions, the Virgin Mary among the Catholics and the Mother Goddess among the Caodaists. Visual culture and institutional structures are examined within both communities. Thien-Huong Ninh invites a critical re-thinking of how race, gender, and religion are proxies for understanding, theorizing, and addressing social inequalities within global contexts.
Reviews
“With this book Dr. Thien-Huong Ninh establishes herself as a pioneer and authority in the field of the intersections of ethnic, diasporic, feminist and religious studies of Vietnamese migration. Her comparison between the Catholic Our Lady of Lavang and the Caodai Mother Goddess and her study of their roles in the formation of Vietnamese transnational communities set the gold standard for future sociological and anthropological investigations of Vietnamese migrants.” (Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University, USA)
“This book is the first in Southeast Asian and/or diasporic studies to bring together racialization in the country of settlement and transnationalism to think through religious practices across two different religions and national contexts in comparative perspective. This is a novel approach that rejects canonical understandings of religion. This book will significantly move the conversations forward in all these fields.” (Thu-Huong Nguyen-vo, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Thien-Huong T. Ninh is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, CA. Her publications and research interests are in the areas of Race, Religion, Gender, Immigration, Globalization, Asian Studies, and Diaspora.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Race, Gender, and Religion in the Vietnamese Diaspora
Book Subtitle: The New Chosen People
Authors: Thien-Huong T. Ninh
Series Title: Christianities of the World
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57168-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57167-6Published: 06 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86094-7Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57168-3Published: 15 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3432
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3440
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 219
Number of Illustrations: 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Religion and Society, Comparative Religion, Christian Theology