Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-274) and index.
Contents:
Conversations with divinities: séance and the first disciples -- A spirit medium as nationalist leader: charisma and anticolonialism -- The spiritual sons of Victor Hugo: from séance to battlefield -- The fall of Saigon and the rise of the diaspora -- A "Caodaist in black" returns to live in Vietnam -- The divine eye on the Internet -- A religion in diaspora, a religion of diaspora.
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