How Heaven Works: The Collective Shamanic Journeys of Phạm Công Tắc and the Syncretic Afterworld of Caodaism

by Christopher Hartney

In 1948, Vietnam's great 20th Century mystic Phạm C ng Tắc (1890-1959) began a series of sermons making Caodaism's claims to universal salvation the clearest. In only two decades, Caodaism had stamped its fast-growing presence on the nation. With potent creative and poetic skill Phạm C ng Tắc invited his co-religionists to take a shamanic journey with him to examine the heavens and literally see how they would be saved. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004680691
• ISBN13: 9789004680692
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 360 Pages