Strange Company: Victor Hugo, the Saigon Flag, and Santa Claus on Vietnamese Altars
Strange Company: Victor Hugo, the Saigon Flag, and Santa Claus on Vietnamese Altars
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Nagoya: Nanzan University
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Nagoya: Nanzan University
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Vietnamese popular religion is inclusive and syncretistic and can incorporate a number of external elements into its expanding pantheon. This article explores the image of Victor Hugo in a mural in Caodai temples, the Saigon flag on ancestral altars, and a Santa Claus doll on "Way of the Mother Goddesses" (Ðao Mau) home temple altars. Each of these...
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Strange Company: Victor Hugo, the Saigon Flag, and Santa Claus on Vietnamese Altars
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2844840110
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1882-6865
