Recent Vietnamese Book on the Study of Religion
From: Charles Keyes <keyes@u.washington.edu>
Date: Jun 3, 2006 8:54 AM
Subject: [Vsg] Recent Vietnamese Book on the Study of Religion
I would like to call attention to a recently published work in Vietnam on the study of reigion: Nh?ng V?n D? Nhan H?c Ton Giao [Issues in the Study of Religion], published under the auspices of the H?i Khoa H?c L?ch S? Vi?t Nam (Vietnamese Association of Historians). The work includes translations of classic works in the sociological/anthropological study of religion (Marx, Durkheim, Freud, Weber, Levi-Strauss), as well as works by Turner, Bellah, Geertz, Asad, and (for truth in packaging) myself. One of the most impressive elements of the book is an extensive glossary. The work should become the foundation for the 'renovated' study of religion in Vietnam.I would like particularly to congratulate Da?o The? Du?c who took the lead on this project.
Biff (Charles Keyes)
From: irene@ruc.dk <irene@ruc.dk>
Date: Jun 10, 2006 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [Vsg] Recent Vietnamese Book on the Study of Religion
Dear Biff,
Could you inform how to hold of this book? Is it broadly available - I have not
come across it yet?
Irene
Irene Norlund
Hanoi
From: Kirsten Endres <kirsten.endres@gmx.net>
Date: Jun 10, 2006 1:06 AM
Subject: Re: [Vsg] Recent Vietnamese Book on the Study of Religion
Unfortunately, it doesn't seem widely available - the first edition has only
printed 500 issues.
From: Frank Proschan <ProschanF@folklife.si.edu>
Date: Jun 10, 2006 8:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Vsg] Recent Vietnamese Book on the Study of Religion
Not to shatter anyone's illusions, but the number of copies cited in the request for a publishing license from the Ministry of Culture and Information, and printed in the little notice at the back of the book, does not in every case faithfully reflect how many copies are actually printed. Whether the book itself is fiction or non-fiction, the ostensible press run is more likely to be the former than the latter.
Best,
From: Le Minh Giang <lg282@columbia.edu>
Date: Jun 10, 2006 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Vsg] Recent Vietnamese Book on the Study of Religion
I bought this book a couple of months ago at a bookshop located in 2A Quang Trung Street. This is a small bookshop, about 20 meters from the main gate. It also has a lot of Vietnamese books on social sciences that you could not find in other mainstream bookshops in the streets of Hanoi. Good luck.
From: Peter Hansen <phansen@ourladys.org.au>
Date: Jul 3, 2006 11:16 PM
Subject: RE: [Vsg] Recent Vietnamese Book on the Study of Religion
Hi All,
I went looking for the shop, and it is in fact off 6A (2a is the taxi rank opposite Vietnam Airlines, at the back of the National Library). The lane runs off from a string of barbers shops. I got some good books and a haircut!
Peter Hansen
From: DiGregorio, Michael <M.DiGregorio@fordfound.org>
Date: Jul 4, 2006 2:25 AM
Subject: RE: [Vsg] Recent Vietnamese Book on the Study of Religion
Dear All,
For those of you interested in the south, the Social Sciences Publishing House has published an edited volume titled, "Nam Bo Dan Toc va Ton Giao", Tran Hong Lien, editor. Publication date is 11/2005. Like so many Social Science volumes published 'on order' in Vietnam,you will have a hard time finding this in your local bookshop. I was handed a copy at an Anthropology curriculum meeting last fall.
Mike
From: Stephen Denney <sdenney@ocf.berkeley.edu>
Date: Jul 4, 2006 10:00 AM
Subject: RE: [Vsg] Recent Vietnamese Book on the Study of Religion
Our library here at UC Berkeley recently received a book in English,
"Religious Issues and Government Policies in Viet Nam," by Nguyen Minh
Quang, English translation and second edition, first published in 2001. It
includes important government documents on religious policy, a history of
the different religious groups, and a defense of government policies which
some consider hardline, such as requiring officially recognized religions
to attain government approval for a wide range of activities.
Published by The Gioi, 266 pages (166 pages of text, plus 100 pages of
appendices with government documents and statistics).
- Steve Denney
From: Stephen Denney <sdenney@ocf.berkeley.edu>
Date: Jul 12, 2006 4:23 PM
Subject: RE: [Vsg] Recent Vietnamese Book on the Study of Religion
Our library here at UC Berkeley just received a book with a similar title
which I am cataloging now, titled (without the diacritics inserted):
Van de ton giao trong cach mang Viet Nam: Ly luan va thuc tien (Sach tham
khao noi bo), by Do Quang Hung, published in 2005 by NXB Chinh Tri Quoc
Gia; 562 pages. 500 copies printed.
No other library in the OCLC/RLIN system has catalogued it yet, so I guess
we are the only library outside Vietnam which has it for now.
- Steve Denney