Abstract/Sommario: Through many sacrifices and radical changes, Vietnam has risen to the challenges of post-colonial world as well as those of its integration, both in the political and the economic level, into an international playing field. Established in 1986, the renovation policy of 'doi moi' has indirectly affected the function of religons in Vietnamese society, and the nature of their relations with a socialist state that officially recognizes a citizen's right to believe or not to believe. This ...; [Leggi tutto...]
Through many sacrifices and radical changes, Vietnam has risen to the challenges of post-colonial world as well as those of its integration, both in the political and the economic level, into an international playing field. Established in 1986, the renovation policy of 'doi moi' has indirectly affected the function of religons in Vietnamese society, and the nature of their relations with a socialist state that officially recognizes a citizen's right to believe or not to believe. This policy has notably favoured the objective revaluation of religion as an ethic and social practice, allowing Vietnam's current religious reconfigurations to be better considered in a national and global perspective. In the early 1990s, theoretical debate redifined the Government's religious policy, which was then accompanied by an evolution of the structures of both state management and academic research. Over the past several years, a number of publications in history and religious anthropology have started to renew the field (from the introduction )