University of Southern California, Department of Sociology

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Race and Ethnicity: inter-racial relations and inter-group disparities (immigrants, refugees, Vietnamese Americans, and Asian Americans).

Religion, Transnationalism, and Family: transnational religious communities, religious participation and identity formation, and the transmission of religious beliefs and practices
Thien-Huong T. Ninh, Ph.D. Student
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Last updated 5/23/08

TRANSNATIONAL RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES: CAODAI, HOA HAO BUDDHISM, AND DAO MAU

Starting May 2008, I will assist my adivser, Janet Hoskins, with her research project "Ethnic Resilience" and Indigenous Religion: A Transnational Perspective on Vietnamese Immigrant Congregations in California. This is a two-year study funded by the National Science Foundation. It entails data collection on three Vietnamese religious communities in California and Vietnam.

I intend to develop my dissertation from this study, complementing it with data on similar religous communities in Australia.

 

Recent and on-going research activities related to this project:

  • "Religion and Ethnicity: Dimensions and Trajectories in the Lives of Second-Generation Vietnamese American Caodais in Southern California"

  • Documentary - The Left Eye of God: Caodaism Travels from Vietnam to California

     

    • Current and Recent Research Assistantship Projects
    Transnational Religious Communities: Caodai, Hoa Hao Buddhism, and Dao Mau Transmission of Religions across Generations California Votes Initiative
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