Research activities

Main research orientations

• Theoretical and methodological issues in religious studies:

  •  Research methods in religious studies

  •  The origin, nature and situation of religions in today's context. 

  •  The relations between religion and politics, culture, ethics, arts, and philosophy.

• The religions in Vietnam and the world:

  •  The doctrines, organization and development of Catholicism

  •  The introduction and spreading of Catholicism in Vietnam

  •   Catholicism's historical and contemporary influences on Vietnam's culture, politics and society.

  •   The doctrines, rituals and organization of Protestantism.

  •   The introduction and spreading of Protestantism in Vietnam

  •   Protestantism's current influences on Vietnam's cultural, political and social issues.

  •   The origin, doctrines, rituals and organization of Islam

  •   The introduction, spreading and features of Islam in Vietnam

  •   The formation and development of Buddhism.

  •   Buddhist Doctrines and religious texts

  •   The introduction and spreading of Buddhism in Vietnam

  •   General Buddhist ideas and Vietnamese Buddhist ideas

  •   The formation, organization and doctrines of Caodism.

  •   The formation, organization and doctrines of Hoahaoism

  •    New religious phenomena in Vietnam and in the world.

  •    Vietnamese religious folk beliefs: ancestor veneration, Mother Goddess, deity worship.

  •    The transformations of some forms of belief in today's Vietnam.

  •    Current religious festivals in Vietnam.

• Religion, belief and social life

  •    Religion and social work.

  •    The current situation of religious educational, charitable and social activities in today's Vietnam.

  •    The Party's policies and the State's law on religion.

  •    Vietnam's integration of religious laws compared to the international laws

  •    Catholicism and Vietnamese culture

  •    Protestantism and its impact on the indigeous cultures at remote areas in Northwest Vietnam and the Central Highlands. 

  •    Religious texts (Catholic, Buddhist, Islamic, Protestant) with ethical and cultural issues in today's Vietnam.