TY - GEN T1 - The new way : Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam T2 - Critical dialogues in Southeast Asian studies A1 - Ngo, Tam T. T., 1980- LA - English PP - Seattle PB - University of Washington Press YR - 2016 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1298711275 AB - "Traces the unique route through which Hmong in Vietnam discovered Christianity and appropriated it for themselves. Although a significant proportion of Vietnam's population has been Catholic since the days of French colonialism, the Hmong continued animistic spiritual practices shared across Hmong populations throughout Southeast Asia in the remote highland areas where most of them lived. After the Vietnam War, the Far East Broadcasting Company started an evangelical program in Hmong language targeting war refugees in Laos. In the mid-1980s this radio signal was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam's Northern Highland, who related the content to their traditional expectation of salvation by a Hmong messiah-king who would lead them out of subjugation. Actual missionaries, mostly Laotian Hmong refugees in the US, eventually arrived to help them routinize their new Protestant faith. Today, this New Way (Kev Cai Tshiab) is the claimed religion of roughly one third of a million Hmong in Vietnam. This ethnographic study describes what happened when some Hmong decided to become Protestants while many of their kin kept their traditional religion, how the communist state views their religious activities, and the global dimensions of Hmong Protestant life. Hmong conversion serves as a lens for viewing the complex politics of religion and ethnic relations in contemporary Vietnam and illuminates larger issues such as the dynamic interplay between local and global forces, socialist and post-socialist state-building, Cold War and post-Cold War antagonisms, Hmong transnationalism, and US-led evangelical expansionism"-- OP - 211 CN - BR1187 SN - 9780295806655 SN - 0295806656 SN - 9780295998275 SN - 029599827X KW - Protestantism : Vietnam. KW - Hmong (Asian people) : Vietnam : Religion. KW - Vietnam : Church history. KW - Ethnology : Vietnam. KW - Protestantisme : Viêt-nam. KW - Miao (Peuple d'Asie) : Viêt-nam : Religion. KW - Ethnologie : Viêt-nam. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Discrimination & Race Relations. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Minority Studies. KW - HISTORY / Asia / Southeast Asia KW - Ethnology KW - Hmong (Asian people) : Religion KW - Protestantism KW - Vietnam KW - Church history ER -