Catholicism, Orientalism and Religious Revival in Late Colonial Vietnam
Monday, February 1st, 2010
| Date | Time | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Monday, February 1, 2010 | 10:30AM - 12:00PM | Seminar Room 208N, Munk Centre For International Studies 1 Devonshire Place |
Series
Southeast Asia Seminar Series
Description
This paper explores the connections between sectarian identity and colonial policy in Vietnam. During the 1920s and 1930s, intellectuals
advancing a unitary, orthodox vision of Vietnamese religion found common cause with colonial officials attracted by its conservative and
hierarchical message. The spread of this understanding of Vietnamese civilization, through state-sponsored cultural projects and curricula as well as religious writings, intensified sectarian tensions and complicated the relationship between Catholics and the colonial state. The paper thus argues that colonial policy had considerable implications for post-colonial sectarian relations in Vietnam, particularly the understanding of Catholics as culturally and politically exterior to Vietnamese nationhood.
Charles Keith is an assistant professor of Southeast Asian history at Michigan State University. He received his PhD from Yale University in 2008. He has published articles in the Journal of Vietnamese Studies and Vingtième Siècle, and he is currently working on a book manuscript entitled “Catholic Vietnam: A Church from Empire to Nation, 1862-1954.”
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