Modernity and Re-enchantment: Religion in Post-revolutionary Vietnam

About the Contributors

489 About the Contributors Nir Avieli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University, Israel. He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003 then worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute, Singapore. His main research interests include contemporary Vietnamese culture, the anthropology of food and the anthropology of tourism. He has published on identity, food and tourism in Vietnam and is currently preparing a culinary ethnography of Hội An, central Vietnam. John Chapman is an ordained lay member of the Plum Village Sangha and was a member of the delegation accompanying Thích Nhất Hạnh on his historic return visit to Vietnam in 2005. He obtained his M.A. in Oriental and African Religious Studies from SOAS in 2001. With a longterm interest in Engaged Buddhism, he has made nine one-month visits to Vietnam since December 1999. His experience prior to his specialization in religious studies was as a university lecturer in Human Resources Management. Horim Choi is Second Secretary in the Office of Planning and International Organizations, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea. He obtained his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Seoul National University in 15฀Contributors฀p489-491.indd฀฀฀489 7/12/07฀฀฀4:32:29฀PM 490 About the Contributors 2003. His publications have focused on ritual, cultural policy, and statesociety relations in contemporary Vietnam. He was Research Professor at Chonnam National University, Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Cross-Cultural Studies, Seoul National University. Elise Anne DeVido is Associate Professor of History at National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan. She obtained her Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University in 1995. She has published articles on contemporary religion in Taiwan and has completed a manuscript on women and Buddhism in Taiwan. She is currently working on issues in the comparative history of Buddhism in twentieth century China and Vietnam. Ðỗ Thiện is Visiting Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. He obtained his Ph.D. in History from the Australian National University in 1996 and taught for several years at the National University of Singapore. His research interests include Vietnamese Buddhism, popular religiosity and ritual economies. He has published a book on southern Vietnamese supernaturalism and several chapters and articles on religion in Vietnam. Kirsten W. Endres is Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Institute of Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Freiburg, Germany. She obtained her Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Munich in 2000. With many years’ experience working and researching in Vietnam, she is author of several articles and book chapters on Vietnamese culture and popular religious practices. She is working on a book manuscript on spirit mediumship in northern Vietnam. Kate Jellema is a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan and Visiting Professor at Marlboro College, Vermont, where she teaches the anthropology of religion, Vietnamese history and comparative European and East Asian experiences of late and post-socialism. Her research interests include memory, historical consciousness, nationalism, senses of home, and the social construction of kinship in Vietnam. She has published articles on post-war transformations in morality and the cult of ancestors in Vietnam. 15฀Contributors฀p489-491.indd฀฀฀490 7/12/07฀฀฀4:32:29฀PM About the Contributors 491 Phạm Quỳnh Phương is a researcher at the Institute of Cultural Studies, Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences, Hanoi. She obtained her Ph.D. in Anthropology from La Trobe University, Melbourne in 2005. She has done extensive research on traditional religions and festivals in the north of Vietnam and has published various chapters/articles on the worship of mother goddesses and national heroes. She is presently working on her book on the worship of the national hero Trần Hưng Đạo as well as doing fieldwork on religion, gender, and cultural change in northern and southern Vietnam. Jacob Ramsay is an independent scholar based in Canberra, Australia. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Australian National University in 2004 on the history of Catholicism in Vietnam, after which he was a post-doctoral fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He has published articles on...