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@article{ART002927144},
author={Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh},
title={A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam},
journal={SUVANNABHUMI},
issn={2092-738X},
year={2023},
volume={15},
number={1},
pages={149-180},
doi={10.22801/svn.2023.15.1.149}

TY - JOUR
AU - Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh
TI - A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam
JO - SUVANNABHUMI
PY - 2023
VL - 15
IS - 1
PB - Korea Institute for ASEAN Studies
SP - 149
EP - 180
SN - 2092-738X
AB - This article explores religious responses to significant cultural and social change in a northern Vietnamese delta village from 1996 to 2008—the second decade after de-collectivization. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in both the village and surrounding religious networks, the article teases out the meanings of the new religious movements for northern rural people in the new era of market economy; the symbols, language, and metaphoric resources people used in response to their uncertainty and mistrust of the new social landscape; and the unintended consequences of rapid societal development such as marginalization, tensions, and social disintegration. The article argues that as in milleniarism elsewhere, new religious movements in northern rural Vietnam embody unorthodox syncretism between world religious and local traditions, thus linking past, present, and future. However, when drawing upon a common reservoir of memories and experiences to cope with risks and challenges of the new market world, local people not only drew on the power and imperial metaphor of deities in their traditional religion and belief, but became more creative to recuperate meanings, standards, and symbols from revolutionary discourse to reorient themselves, and overcome alienation and marginalization.
KW - new religious movement;millenarianism;religious responses;marketization;rural north delta Vietnam
DO - 10.22801/svn.2023.15.1.149
ER -

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh. (2023). A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam. SUVANNABHUMI, 15(1), 149-180.

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh. 2023, "A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam", SUVANNABHUMI, vol.15, no.1 pp.149-180. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2023.15.1.149

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh "A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam" SUVANNABHUMI 15.1 pp.149-180 (2023) : 149.

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh. A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam. 2023; 15(1), 149-180. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2023.15.1.149

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh. "A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam" SUVANNABHUMI 15, no.1 (2023) : 149-180.doi: 10.22801/svn.2023.15.1.149

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh. A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam. SUVANNABHUMI, 15(1), 149-180. doi: 10.22801/svn.2023.15.1.149

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh. A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam. SUVANNABHUMI. 2023; 15(1) 149-180. doi: 10.22801/svn.2023.15.1.149

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh. A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam. 2023; 15(1), 149-180. Available from: doi:10.22801/svn.2023.15.1.149

Nguyen Thi Thanh Binh. "A Spiritual War: Religious Responses to Marketization in Rural North Vietnam" SUVANNABHUMI 15, no.1 (2023) : 149-180.doi: 10.22801/svn.2023.15.1.149