5. Narrating the Past and the Future: Religious Super-diversity Formation of Catholic Communities in Vietnam
Religious Super-diversity and Peacebuilding across Asia and its Diasporas - Alessandro Saggioro
Yuqing Du [+]
ShanghaiTech University
Yuqing Du is an assistant professor in Institution of Humanities, ShanghaiTech
University. She received a doctoral degree in anthropology from SOAS, University of
London. From 2020 to 2022, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Sun Yat-Sen
University. Her research interests include anthropology of Christianity, Vietnamese
Catholicism and gender.
Description
Based on 12 months of fieldwork in a northern Catholic community, a resettled community of 1954 bắc di cư, this chapter explicates the manner in which complex church/state histories and religious-political crisis were reconstructed in local historical narratives, and how these developments shaped the future aspirations of local parishioners and forms of peaceful coexistence in Vietnam.