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THE SPIRIT OF CAODAI PHILANTROPY BY DR. MOHAMMAD JAHANGIR ALAM

THE SPIRIT OF CAODAI PHILANTROPY BY DR. MOHAMMAD JAHANGIR ALAM

Updated 2022-08-08 07:43:59

(California August 2022)

Mohammad Jahangir Alam (born 1977), is an Associate Professor of World Religions and Culture at the University of Dhaka. He earned his MPhil and PhD in World Religions Culture from the same university. As a part of his PhD research fieldwork funded by Cao Dai Overseas Missionary, USA, he studied Vietnamese language and culture at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam from 2012- 2013. An expert on Baha’i Faith, and Cao Dai culture, he authored The Concept of Unity in Baha’i Faith and Caodaism: A Comparative Study in 2010. He was awarded his doctorate in 2020 for “Dao Cao Dai: A Socio-historical Analysis of a Syncretic Vietnamese Religion and Its Relationship with Other Religions”. His current research interest includes the realization of common aspects of truth in religion for the quest of new dynamics of peace and harmony, and exploring social integration of New Religious Movements (NRMs) through the lens of acculturation. He is a member of United Religions Initiative, Bangladesh CC and Treasurer, International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF) Bangladesh Chapter. Dr. Alam served as the Founding President of Bangladesh Youth Association for Religion and Peace (2001-2003).

On October 3, 2021, Prof. Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Associate Professor and Principal Lecturer of the ‘Tradition of Cao Dai Religion’ course, was promoted to take the post of the Chairman of the Department of World Religions and Culture (DWRC) at the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, for a 3-year term from October 2021 to October 2024.

Professor Dr, Jahangir Alam, born in 1977, started to study Caodaism in 2003 and got a grant from the Cao Dai Overseas Missionary to do his MPhil on Caodaism in 2009. Then, as part of his PhD Research Fieldwork funded by the Cao Dai Overseas Missionary, California, USA, he studied Vietnamese language and culture at the HCM University of Social Sciences and Humanities between 2012 and 2013 and has just been awarded a Doctorate in 2020.

Following are 3 papers written by Dr. Alam about CAO DAI :

CAO DAI UNDERSTANDING OF GOD BY DR. MOHAMMAD JAHANGIR ALAM
THE SPIRIT OF CAODAI PHILANTROPY BY DR. MOHAMMAD JAHANGIR ALAM
CAODAI COSMOLOGY BY DR. MOHAMMAD JAHANGIR ALAM (A Critical Analysis of Creation Theory: Cao Dai Perspective)

THE SPIRIT OF CAODAI PHILANTROPY