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The Divine Eye and the DiasporaJanet Alison Hoskins

New Religious Movements

The Divine Eye and the Diaspora

Vietnamese Syncretism Becomes Transpacific Caodaism

by Janet Alison Hoskins

Hoskins studies Cao Đài in Vietnam and among Vietnamese communities in California, examining its séances, saints and politics. She shows how the religion has been transformed by exile. The most detailed recent study of Caodaism.

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