| Race, Gender, and Religion in the Vietnamese Diaspora: The New Chosen People 2017 Edition Contributor(s): Ninh, Thien-Huong T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319571672 ISBN-13: 9783319571676 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology Of Religion - Religion | Comparative Religion - Religion | Christian Theology - General |
| Dewey: 200 |
| Series: Christianities of the World |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 5.83" W x 8.27" (1.16 lbs) 219 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
