Cao Dai

Caodaist scholarship manifest in Riga

Updated 2012-05-14 13:19:13

The Caodaist Overseas Missionary has, for the last few years now, been assisting scholars in their research on Caodaism. This year was no different with the Missionary helping Dr Sergei Blagov and I attend the CESNUR conference in Riga, Latvia. Now it might take some thinking to link Dao Cao Dai with the very extremities of Europe but nevertheless, this meeting of scholars presented a great chance for fostering interest in the religion at a scholarly and international level.

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Institutionalising Spiritism and The Esoteric

Updated 2012-05-14 13:19:13

Note - Christopher Hartney has a BA Honors in Religious Studies from the University of Sydney where he is currently completing a Masters of Philosophy on the history of Caodaism in Australia. He tutors and is a part-time lecturer at the School of Studies in Religion and also works as a broadcaster for religious affairs for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

The following is Chris Hartney’s presentation at CESNUR (Center for Studies of New Religions) Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 3, 1999.

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Interview with Dr Janet Hoskins...

Updated 2012-05-07 20:54:17

Dr. Hoskins: I became interested in Caodaism by reading about it and seeing that there was a temple in Pomona, about 5 minutes from where I grew up. I had been studying religions in Southeast Asia for many years, mainly in Indonesia, and had read some reports about Caodaism published in English.

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Caodaism Taught At The University Of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Updated 2012-05-07 20:49:52

Dr. Mohammad Jahangir Alam, Lecturer at the Department of World Religions, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, also a specialist in Caodaism, just informed that his department has approved the Cao Dai religion course to be included in the curriculum for third year students of the M.A program, starting with this academic year 2008-2009.

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Caodaism and Spiritism

Updated 2012-05-07 18:22:00

Caodaism is the first religious community so far that enables its adepts to have direct communication with the transcendental world via institutionalised spiritist seances. We believe that their doctrine provides the synthesis of all great teachings of the past. The full name of Cao Dai religion is “The Great Way of the Third Era of Salvation.”

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Caodai in Cambodia Farrell

Updated 2012-05-07 16:37:44

On 17 September last year, the mid-morning monotony of the Mao Tse Tsung Boulevard was interrupted by an unusual spectacle. Amid the petrol fumes and incessant growl of engines, twelve people in long white robes marched towards the Intercontinental Hotel. There the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) was holding its Inter Parliamentary Organisational Summit (AIPOS)

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Caodai in Bangladesh

Updated 2012-05-07 13:14:27

During the course of taking Caodaism to the international community, the Caodai Overseas Missionary has been making some interesting contacts. Friends are appearing from the four corners of the world. It was nevertheless surprising to hear that interested parties had organized an international symposium on Caodaism at Dhaka University, Bangladesh.

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Brief Outline of History and Philosophy of Caodaism

Updated 2012-05-02 21:45:45

Written by Trần Cảnh

It was often said that few phenomena in Asia have been so completely misinterpreted by the West as the Vietnamese religion known as "Caodaism". Given its firm roots of Caodaism in Vietnamese culture, and the adherence of millions of followers, it is surprising that only recently have serious studies of the Cao Dai been undertaken.

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A Summary of Cao-Dai Rituals

Updated 2012-05-01 13:51:21

Written by Caodai Overseas Missionary

Method of Worshipping and Making Offerings - God's Altar

In establishing an altar to the Supreme Being one must choose a location that is pure. The best position for such a shrine is in the middle of the house, high on the wall with a curtain to draw across. The altar requires:

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A brief History and Philosophy

Updated 2012-05-01 12:24:27

As a religion that encompasses a vast range of religious ideas from many different cultures and cosmologies, there is much that I could say about Caodaism. As I am speaking in Bangladesh however, there are a few areas I would like to highlight as they are issues that also concern the Muslim world and cultures that are infused with Hindu cosmological assumptions

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