La spécificité de l’objet religieux au regard du culte des ancêtres des Vietnamiens en France réinterprété à partir du bouddhisme

Starting from an ethnological enquiry into the Vietnamese cult of ancestors in a Buddhist context in France, this article deals with the reflexive dimension of this kind of research. It shows that as an object of enquiry, religion is difficult to grasp because it involves values that often remain un...

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Main Author: Jérôme Gidoin
Format: Article
Language:fra
Published: Centre interdisciplinaire d’Études du Religieux (CIER) 2016-02-01
Series:Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/cerri/1578
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description Starting from an ethnological enquiry into the Vietnamese cult of ancestors in a Buddhist context in France, this article deals with the reflexive dimension of this kind of research. It shows that as an object of enquiry, religion is difficult to grasp because it involves values that often remain unspoken. The article will briefly present the specificities of Buddhism and of the Vietnamese cult of ancestors and discuss the conditions of their coexistence in Vietnam and of their original form of contact in France. Throughout, however, its mains concern will be to reflect on the contingencies (intersubjective tensions and misunderstandings) the researcher had to face, but also on the way he used them to interrogate his field. It will raise the issue of otherness and, more implicitly, reflect on the ethics of research within the framework of a study on religion today.
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La spécificité de l’objet religieux au regard du culte des ancêtres des Vietnamiens en France réinterprété à partir du bouddhisme
Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires
ancestor cult
Vietnamese Buddhism
field
reflexivity
otherness
title La spécificité de l’objet religieux au regard du culte des ancêtres des Vietnamiens en France réinterprété à partir du bouddhisme
title_full La spécificité de l’objet religieux au regard du culte des ancêtres des Vietnamiens en France réinterprété à partir du bouddhisme
title_fullStr La spécificité de l’objet religieux au regard du culte des ancêtres des Vietnamiens en France réinterprété à partir du bouddhisme
title_full_unstemmed La spécificité de l’objet religieux au regard du culte des ancêtres des Vietnamiens en France réinterprété à partir du bouddhisme
title_short La spécificité de l’objet religieux au regard du culte des ancêtres des Vietnamiens en France réinterprété à partir du bouddhisme
title_sort la specificite de l objet religieux au regard du culte des ancetres des vietnamiens en france reinterprete a partir du bouddhisme
topic ancestor cult
Vietnamese Buddhism
field
reflexivity
otherness
url https://journals.openedition.org/cerri/1578
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