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Viewing articles tagged 'protestant'
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The missions and the doctors
Protestant missionaries came to the highlands in 1929, and within forty years a large part of the Dega had become Christian. They also brought the first hospitals many of our villages had ever seen. During the war the mission compounds and the clinics were on the same ground as everything else, and some of the people who ran them died there.
Yang: the spirits and the old religion
Before the missions, every highland people lived among yang: spirits of the rice, the water, the mountain, the forest, the house, the jar and the gong. Most Dega today are Christian. This page describes the old religion as the ethnographers recorded it, how conversion changed it, and how the state now stages parts of it as heritage while punishi...
The Evangelical Church and registration
Most Dega Protestants belong to congregations the state does not recognize. The largest state-recognized Protestant church is the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (South), and the choice put to highland house churches for twenty-five years has been the same: join it, or be treated as “Dega Protestants,” a label the state treats as political separat...
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