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    A Secular State for a Religious Nation, The Republic of Vietnam and Religious Nationalism, 1946-1963
    (2018) Nguyen, Phi-Vân
    Most studies of the Republic of Vietnam’s nation building programs have focused on its security and economic dimensions. Yet spirituality was a fundamental element of Ngô Đình Diệm’s Personalist Revolution. This article analyzes how the Republic of Vietnam attempted to channel the religious nationalism emerging from the First Indochina War. The spiritual dimension of the Republic’s Personalist Revolution did not involve State interference in all religious activities. Instead, it promoted religious freedom and diversity, provided that the spiritual values they propagated, opposed Communism’s atheism. In practice, this framework did not succeed in creating a religious alliance against Communism. In fact, it strengthened a religious consciousness which would increasingly challenge the State, its assumption that religions opposed Communism, and the very principle of religious diversity.
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    The Vietnamization of Personalism: The Role of Missionaries in the Spread of Personalism in Vietnam, 1930–1961
    (2017) Nguyen, Phi-Vân
    Lorsque l’État associé du Vietnam acquit son indépendance et qu’un référendum établit une République du Vietnam après son regroupement au sud du 17ème parallèle, le personnalisme communautaire devint l’idéologie maîtresse du gouvernement de Ngô Đình Diệm. Plusieurs observateurs critiques de l’époque dénigrèrent ce personnalisme comme une pâle imitation de la pensée originelle d’Emmanuel Mounier. L’objectif de cet article est de montrer, au travers du parcours intellectuel de deux missionnaires, Alexis Cras et Fernand Parrel, comment le personnalisme français s’est transformé pour devenir une pensée politique proprement vietnamienne.