"Ethnic Resilience" and Indigenous Religion: A Transnational Perspective on Vietnamese Immigrant Congregations in California

“种族复原力”和土著宗教：加州越南移民教会的跨国视角

• 批准号: 0752511
• 负责人: Janet Hoskins
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Southern California
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-05-01 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0752511&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Ethnic; Resilience; Indigenous; Religion; Transnational

Dr. Janet Hoskins will undertake research on the relationship between immigrant resilience and religious practices. Her focus will be a case study of renewed interest in three distinct religions born in Vietnam: the syncretistic and hierarchical Caodaism, the ascetic and egalitarian Hoa Hao Buddhism, and the spirit possession performances of Dao Mau or "Mother Goddess Religion." These religions were practiced by 15-25 percent of the people of South Vietnam before 1975. Recently, Vietnamese immigrants have been re-establishing these religions in California, and they also are re-emerging on the public stage in Vietnam where there has been a resurgence of religious activity in the post-1995 renovation era. Hoskins will investigate (1) how followers of indigenous religions situate themselves as moral actors in their home country and in the United States; (2) how their religions are institutionalized in two such different contexts; and (3) how religious practices relate to the ways in which people who are first seen as refugees and exiles come eventually to be defined as immigrants and members of ethnic groups. The researcher will employ a combination of ethnographic methodologies. She will collect and analyze individual life histories and family histories; delineate and analyze institutional networks; compare religious publications in English and Vietnamese; and observe religious centers and ceremonies in California and Vietnam. These data will allow her to explore the possibility that cross-generational persistence supports immigrants and ideas of ethnic resilience, even in situations where modes of worship are reinvented and revitalized, and immigration is an impetus for religious innovation.This research will contribute to theory that realigns the analysis of religion in home and destination countries, and to better understanding of the subtle dimensions of successful immigration. The project also supports the education of a graduate student.

珍妮特·霍斯金斯博士将对移民韧性和宗教习俗之间的关系进行研究。她的重点将是对越南诞生的三种截然不同的宗教重新产生兴趣的案例研究：融合和等级制度的柯达教，苦行和平等主义的华浩佛教，以及道茂的灵魂附体表演。1975年前，南越有15%-25%的人信奉这些宗教。最近，越南移民在加利福尼亚州重新建立了这些宗教，他们也重新出现在越南的公共舞台上，那里的宗教活动在1995年后的翻修时代重新抬头。霍斯金斯将调查(1)土著宗教的追随者如何在本国和美国将自己定位为道德行为者；(2)他们的宗教是如何在两个这样的不同背景下制度化的；(3)宗教习俗如何与最初被视为难民和流亡者的人最终被定义为移民和种族群体成员的方式有关。研究人员将采用人种学方法的组合。她将收集和分析个人生活史和家族史；描绘和分析机构网络；比较英语和越南语的宗教出版物；观察加利福尼亚州和越南的宗教中心和仪式。这些数据将使她能够探索跨代坚持支持移民和种族复原力的想法的可能性，即使在崇拜模式重新发明和复兴的情况下，移民是宗教创新的动力。这项研究将有助于理论重新调整对母国和目的地国的宗教分析，并更好地理解成功移民的微妙维度。该项目还支持研究生的教育。