New Religions and State's Response to Religious Diversification in Contemporary Vietnam
This book approaches newly emerging religious groups through the interplay between religious and non-religious spheres and in the context of religious diversification in post-Renovation Vietnam. It considers the new religious groups as a part of religious
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Chung Van Hoang
New Religions and State’s Response to Religious Diversification in Contemporary Vietnam Tensions from the Reinvention of the Sacred
Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies Volume 7
Series Editors Lori G. Beaman, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada Anna Halafoff, Deakin University, Vic, Australia Lene Kühle, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
Processes of globalization have resulted in increasingly culturally and religiously diverse societies. In addition, religion is occupying a more prominent place in the public sphere at the turn of the 21st Century, despite predictions of religious decline. The rise in religious diversity, and in the salience of religious identity, is posing both challenges and opportunities pertaining to issues of governance. Indeed, a series of tensions have arisen between state and religious actors regarding a variety of matters including burial rites, religious education and gender equality. Many of these debates have focused on the need for, and limits of, religious freedom especially in situations where certain religious practices risk impinging upon the freedom of others. Moreover, different responses to religious pluralism are often informed by the relationship between religion and state in each society. Due to the changing nature of societies, most have needed to define, or redefine, the boundaries of religious freedom refl ected in laws, policies and the design and use of public spaces. These boundaries, however, continue to be contested, debated and reviewed, at local, national and global levels of governance. All books published in this Series have been fully peer-reviewed before final acceptance. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11839
Chung Van Hoang
New Religions and State’s Response to Religious Diversification in Contemporary Vietnam Tensions from the Reinvention of the Sacred
Chung Van Hoang ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute Singapore, Singapore
ISSN 2214-5281 ISSN 2214-529X (electronic) Boundaries of Religious Freedom: Regulating Religion in Diverse Societies ISBN 978-3-319-58499-7 ISBN 978-3-319-58500-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-58500-0 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017943338 © Springer International Publishing AG 2017 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors an
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