The divine eye and the diaspora
Subtitle: Vietnamese syncretism becomes transpacific Caodaism
By: Janet Alison Hoskins
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780824851408; 9780824840044
Subjects: Syncretism (Religion); Caodaism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references ( pages 257-274) and index.
Table of contents: title: Conversations with divinities: séance and the first disciples; title: A spirit medium as nationalist leader: charisma and anticolonialism; title: The spiritual sons of Victor Hugo: from séance to battlefield; title: The fall of Saigon and the rise of the diaspora; title: A "Caodaist in black" returns to live in Vietnam; title: The divine eye on the Internet; title: A religion in diaspora, a religion of diaspora.