RT Article
T1 Protestant conversion and social conflict: the case of the Hmong in contemporary Vietnam
JF Journal of Southeast Asian studies
VO 46
IS 2
SP 274
OP 292
A1 Ngo, Tam T. T.
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2015
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1634311574
AB This article analyses the social implications of the recent mass conversions to Protestantism by one-third of the one million Hmong in Vietnam. The conversions have been condemned by the Vietnamese state, while being understood by international human rights activists as acts of conscience on the part of the Hmong converts. This article focuses on the internal debate and divisions surrounding conversion among the Hmong themselves. The converts believe that Protestantism is the only way to alter the ethnic group's marginal status in Vietnam while the unconverted Hmong see conversion as a betrayal of Hmong ethnicity. Such conflicting views have been causing deep fractures in Hmong society. (J Southeast Asian Stud/GIGA)
K1 Ethnische Gruppe
K1 Miao
K1 Protestantismus
K1 Ursache
K1 Wirkung
K1 Auswirkung
K1 Sozialer Konflikt
K1 Ethnizität
K1 Bevölkerungsgruppe
K1 Staat
K1 Vietnam