Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Lie & Tilde;u Ha & Dotbelow;nh in Vietnamese Intellectual Religious, Social, and Political History

Download or read book Cult, Culture, and Authority: Princess Lie & Tilde;u Ha & Dotbelow;nh in Vietnamese Intellectual Religious, Social, and Political History written by Olga Dror and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project views tradition as void, by which is meant that popular cults may have long histories and enjoy immense popularity, but people are mainly concerned to observe the ritual forms in which they are wrapped rather than to know stories representing intellectualizations of the sublime. The cult has been detraditionalized and retraditionalized in different periods of Vietnamese history, including the contemporary post-renovation period.