Vietnamese Buddhist pagoda in France: “institution-place of memoryâ€. Legitimate power to communicate the memory of exiles
Journal Title: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies - Year 2012, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
Vietnamese Buddhism took hold and developed in France partly because it was able to obtain a monopoly on funeral rites and mourning rites. Many exiled families see the interest of this and delegate their ancestor worship to the monks. By combining the spiritual, socio-cultural, eschatological and political domains, and despite whatever generation gaps may exist, the pagoda allows families to reconstruct a social and family ethic in a context of social acculturation. It provides a fitting answer to the question inherent to the migratory context: how to find new symbolic resources outside of Vietnam? And it can thus implement a communication strategy that officialises, in the land of exile, the inextricable link between the pagoda and the assumption of responsibility for the memory of exiled ancestors.
Authors and Affiliations
Jérôme GIDOIN| Chercheur, Centre d’anthropologie culturelle de ParisDescartes EA 4545, Faculté SHS Sorbonne, FRANCE
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