04484cam a2200685Ma 4500 ocn951076121 OCoLC 20200709060455.0 m d cr |n||||||||| 160603s2016 wau o 000 0 eng d IDEBK eng pn IDEBK N$T YDXCP OCLCF P@U OCLCQ COCUF OCLCQ VTS G3B STF IGB JSTOR 0295806656 (electronic bk.) 9780295806655 (electronic bk.) 029599827X 1250194 (N$T) (OCoLC)951076121 926941 MIL 22573/ctvct6zmv JSTOR a-vt--- BR1187 .N46 2016 SOC 031000 bisacsh SOC 020000 bisacsh HIS 048000 bisacsh REL 053000 bisacsh SOC 002010 bisacsh 305.6/804089959720597 23 MAIN Ngo, Tam T. T., 1980- author. New Way. Seattle : University of Washington Press, 2016. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Print version record. The Hmong in Vietnam -- The short-waved faith -- Remittance of faith and modernity -- Millenarianism and conversion -- Not by rice alone -- State, church, and community -- Transformation of morality and subjectivity. "Traces the unique route through which Hmong in Vietnam discovered Christianity and appropriated it for themselves. Although a significant proportion of Vietnam's population has been Catholic since the days of French colonialism, the Hmong continued animistic spiritual practices shared across Hmong populations throughout Southeast Asia in the remote highland areas where most of them lived. After the Vietnam War, the Far East Broadcasting Company started an evangelical program in Hmong language targeting war refugees in Laos. In the mid-1980s this radio signal was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam's Northern Highland, who related the content to their traditional expectation of salvation by a Hmong messiah-king who would lead them out of subjugation. Actual missionaries, mostly Laotian Hmong refugees in the US, eventually arrived to help them routinize their new Protestant faith. Today, this New Way (Kev Cai Tshiab) is the claimed religion of roughly one third of a million Hmong in Vietnam. This ethngraphic study describes what happened when some Hmong decided to become Protestants while many of their kin kept their traditional religion, how the communist state views their religious activities, and the global dimensions of Hmong Protestant life. Hmong conversion serves as a lens for viewing the complex politics of religion and ethnic relations in contemporary Vietnam and illuminates larger issues such as the dynamic interplay between local and global forces, socialist and post-socialist state-building, Cold War and post-Cold War antagonisms, Hmong transnationalism, and US-led evangelical expansionism"-- Provided by publisher. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Protestantism Vietnam. Hmong (Asian people) Vietnam Religion. Vietnam Church history. Ethnology Vietnam. SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations. bisacsh SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies. bisacsh Ethnology. fast (OCoLC)fst00916106 Hmong (Asian people) Religion. fast (OCoLC)fst00958452 Protestantism. fast (OCoLC)fst01079920 Vietnam. fast (OCoLC)fst01204778 HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia bisacsh Electronic books. Church history. fast (OCoLC)fst01411629 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1250194 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1250194 EBSCO Academic Comprehensive Collection EBSCOhost EBSC 1250194 ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection IDEB cis33139602 Project MUSE MUSE muse55792 YBP Library Services YANK 13068408 92 N$T 56915 56915