New Religions in Religious Diversification and the State’s Response

Hoang, Chung Van

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“…First of all, any law on religious associations will have to address the issue of religious diversity and religious pluralism. What is needed (for it is currently lacking in Vietnam) is an appropriate legal framework for regulating small religious groups and new religious phenomena (Chung Van Hoang, 2017). According to statistics from the Committee on Religious Affairs of the Government of Vietnam, there are over 70 different types of new religious phenomena, most of which have originated domestically, although others have been imported from countries such as Taiwan, Japan, France, China and India (Statistics, 2018).…”

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The Secular State: The Vietnamese Experience

Nguyen

2023

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In state atheism, the issue of secularism is frequently deemed a matter not of “separating religion from the state”, but “separating religion from society” or “rejecting religion from society”. Case studies help in effectively evaluating the extent to which this philosophy can be realized. In this regard, the present article is about a case study on the construction of the secular state in contemporary socialist Vietnamese society. The article is mainly based on the provisions of Vietnam’s legal documents on belief and religion. Analyses of Vietnamese, Russian, and Western scholars on the atheistic state and the secular state have been duly conducted. In addition, the placement of state-religious relations within the cultural framework has created opportunities for studying, visualizing, and illustrating the secular state in its various aspects and in a detailed manner. The author has adopted socio-cultural approaches, which employs logical, historical and legal research methods to analyse, synthesize, compare and clarify the following three issues: (1) the formation and transformation of the secular state in Vietnam; (2) the relationship between the atheistic state and the secular state in Vietnam; and (3) solutions to the problems posed by state secularism in the country. The results indicate that from its establishment in 1945 to the present day, the socialist state in Vietnam has issued legal documents aimed at building a “cooperation” model of a secular state. The model faced certain challenges from 1960 to 1980 due to the influence of other socialist countries, but since the 1986 reform of Vietnam it has increasingly evolved characteristics of a “cooperation” model, which has contributed remarkably in resolving the issue of conflict between the atheist state and the secular state. The harmony between the two types of state, the secular and theatheistic in Vietnam is related to the traditional and cultural elements of Vietnamese society. The cooperation model of a secular state is regarded as the key to building state-religious relations in Vietnam, while a culture of tolerance is fundamental to its construction.

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The Secular State: The Vietnamese Experience

Nguyen

2023

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“…Despite various challenges or complaints expressed in the interviews, we also noticed pride, peace of mind, and a strong belief that good seeds would produce good fruits. As part of an agricultural heritage and Buddhist beliefs about charity, Vietnamese people put much confidence in causality law in many aspects of their life (Hoang, 2017). One striking finding across the cases was that this belief often led teachers to prioritize disadvantaged communities for their service-learning courses: for example, a school for children with disabilities, an orphanage, a rehabilitation center, or an organization working to preserve an endangered cultural art form.…”

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The Growth of Service-Learning in Vietnamese Higher Education: Catalysts, Characteristics, and Challenges

Nguyen,

Milligan,

Sutherland

2023

International Journal of Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement

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Service-learning has appeared in Vietnamese higher education in recent decades and is among a range of pedagogical approaches that have been imported from the West. This article discusses features of service-learning in Vietnamese universities that have emerged from the distinctive ideologies of the socialist-communist country, the influence of traditional values and religious beliefs, and the conditions of a postcolonial society and modern global economy. The interpretive multisite case study discussed in this article investigated local service-learning courses in four public universities in the Middle and South of Viet Nam. Four catalysts for the growth of service-learning in Viet Nam were identified: employability, responsibility to the community, enhancing young people’s moral values, and teachers as bottom-up initiators of service-learning initiatives. The lessons from this study hold potential to inform future policies, institutional organization, as well as pedagogies and strategies to improve and sustain service-learning practices in Vietnamese higher education and similar contexts.

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New Religions in Religious Diversification and the State’s Response

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The Secular State: The Vietnamese Experience

The Secular State: The Vietnamese Experience

The Growth of Service-Learning in Vietnamese Higher Education: Catalysts, Characteristics, and Challenges

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