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Additional Physical Format: | Emergence et constitution de la communauté du Bouddhisme Hoà Hao : contribution à l'histoire sociale du delta du Mékong (1935-1955) / Pascal Bourdeaux. Lille : Atelier national de Reproduction des Thèses, 2005 3 microfiches (ABES)104552271 |
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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Pascal Bourdeaux; Thế Anh Nguyễn; École pratique des hautes études (Paris); École pratique des hautes études (Paris). Section des sciences historiques et philologiques. |
OCLC Number: | 1124728346 |
Description: | 3 v. (685 f.- [57] plates hors texte) : illustrations en noir et en coul., 14 cartes. ; 30 cm |
Responsibility: | Pascal Bourdeaux ; sous la dir. de The Anh Nguyen. |
Abstract:
Hoa Hao Buddhism first appeared in 1939 in the western part of the Mekong Delta. Benefiting from a wider Buddhist renovation, the founder Huynh Phu So revived a type of Buddhist messianism and unified a bundle of pre-existing beliefs. The religious outpouring rapidly became an indicator of cohesion, an expression of a need for social and cultural integration for the local population. The conflicting process of decolonisation influenced the spiritual activities of this emerging community, as well as its military, political and socio-economic organisations. This study of social history analyses the constitution of an identifiable human grouping within the limits of its geo-historical context, the underlying cultural principles of the cult, the forms of its development, the aspirations and the lives of the believers. It examines also the distinction between a type of communautarism and the Hoa Hao community which expresses a voluntary and good-natured belonging to this buddhist cult.
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