Review: Bouddhisme Hòa Hảo, D’un royaume l’autre: Religion et révolution au Sud Viêt Nam (1935–1955), by Pascal Bourdeaux

Book Review| November 01 2023 Review: Bouddhisme Hòa Hảo, D’un royaume l’autre: Religion et révolution au Sud Viêt Nam (1935–1955), by Pascal Bourdeaux Pascal Bourdeaux, Bouddhisme Hòa Hảo, D’un royaume l’autre: Religion et révolution au Sud Viêt Nam (1935–1955).Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2022. 475 pages. €35.00. Charles Keith Charles Keith Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Vietnamese Studies (2023) 18 (4): 116–119. https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2023.18.4.116 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Charles Keith; Review: Bouddhisme Hòa Hảo, D’un royaume l’autre: Religion et révolution au Sud Viêt Nam (1935–1955), by Pascal Bourdeaux. Journal of Vietnamese Studies 1 November 2023; 18 (4): 116–119. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/vs.2023.18.4.116 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Vietnamese Studies Search Bouddhisme Hòa Hảo, d’un royaume l’autre is the first comprehensive study of the early history of Hòa Hảo Buddhism in Vietnam. Its central concern is Hòa Hảo’s transformation from an expression of millenarianism into a religious community, a process that coincided with Vietnam’s seismic mid-twentieth century: colonial rule, Japanese occupation, revolution, anti-colonial resistance, civil war, and partition. Pascal Bourdeaux’s analytical starting point is that while Hòa Hảo’s early history is inseparable from this context, the religion also emerged and evolved according to sacred logics and temporalities that are not reducible to political history. His mastery of the autonomies, concordances, and conflicts of this history’s dueling religious and sociopolitical temporalities undergirds a magisterial work that is a landmark in the field. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 begins by situating Hoà Hảo’s origins in the deep religious and cultural history of the Mekong Delta, whose landscape, migration patterns,... You do not currently have access to this content.