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

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

Ninh, Thien-Huong T.

Hardcover

Series: Christianities of the World

Comparative ReligionGeneral ChristianityGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3319571672
ISBN13: 9783319571676
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Sep 6 2017
Pages: 219
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

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.

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