Ngo, Tam T. T. 1980- creator author. text Electronic books. Church history. wau Seattle University of Washington Press 2016 monographic eng 1 online resource "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"-- 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. a-vt--- Protestantism Vietnam Hmong (Asian people) Vietnam Religion Vietnam Church history Ethnology Vietnam SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination & Race Relations SOCIAL SCIENCE Minority Studies Ethnology Hmong (Asian people) Religion Protestantism Vietnam HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia BR1187 .N46 2016 305.6/804089959720597 0295806656 9780295806655 926941 MIL 22573/ctvct6zmv JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1250194 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1250194 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1250194 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1250194 IDEBK 160603 20200709060455.0 ocn951076121 eng