Race, Gender, and Religion in the Vietnamese Diaspora: The New Chosen People

ISBN-13: 9783319860947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 219 str.

Thien-Huong T. Ninh

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Contextualizing the Research

Chapter 2: The Virgin Mary as the Mother of the Vietnamese Catholic Diaspora

Chapter 3: Vietnamese Catholic Humanitarian Organizations Across U.S.-Cambodia Borders

Chapter 4: The Caodai Mother Goddess in Diasporic Disjunctures

Chapter 5: Structural Hierarchies and Fragments among Vietnamese Caodaists

Chapter 6: Conclusion

O autorze

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.

Blurb

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.