Buch, Englisch, 169 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2818 g
Reihe: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
Tensions from the Reinvention of the Sacred
Buch, Englisch, 169 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2818 g
Reihe: Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies
ISBN: 978-3-319-86418-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
To this end, the book draws on a number of research approaches and methodologies in an effort to provide readers with a multi-faceted understanding of Vietnam’s new religious groups. The research is interdisciplinary in orientation, drawing on sociology and anthropology. It is also comparative in that it bases its argument on a consideration of three distinct new religious groups in Vietnam. The research is also qualitative and ethnographic in that it drew on some of the techniques associated with participant observation during a sustained period of fieldwork amongst the three religious groups.
The concept of religious reconfiguration developed in this book provides a framework for the study of religion in Vietnam which opens the way to further analysis from a comparative perspective. Meanwhile, an emphasis upon religious reinvention which addresses processes of remaking, transforming, legitimating and accommodating can be useful for research into New Religious Movements elsewhere in Asia. A research in the challenges of new religions could act as a catalyst for interdisciplinary studies based on detailed empirical study of religious diversity and of religious freedom by other scholars. It is hoped that this research might help to give a voice to religious minorities that are often the victim of stereotyping, misunderstanding, and punitive treatment.
The book is suitable for post-graduate students and social researchers who are interested in religious revival, religious diversification, State-religion relationships, and State's regulation of new religions.
Zielgruppe
Research
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Competing religious worldviews of the post-renovation Vietnam.- 2. Modernity and religious reconfiguration: a Vietnamese perspective.- 3. Encountering the uninvited the state, the established religions and attempts to shape NRMS.- 4. Revitalising the legacy of a local sage: the school of teaching goodness.- 5. A “spiritual revolution” for national salvation: the way of the jade Buddha.- 6. An attempt to reconfigure Buddhism: the great mother’s field of esp.- 7. The reinvention and reconfiguration of NRMS.- 8. Conclusion.