[Buddha-l] Thich Nhat Hanh as a new Buddhist movement?

[Jo]

Dear Jamie,

So far as Vietnam goes, this monk is still highly controversial with several groups, not just government, but also beloved by a wide spectrum of Vietnamese. 
Best, Joanna.
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See for ex.: Modernity and Re-Enchantment: Religion in Post-Revolutionary Vietnam,
 edited by Philip Taylor. 2007.  There's a lot of this on google books if not all of it. There's a chapter on the Buddhist revival (8) and also on Nhat Hanh (9). http://tinyurl.com/8m6g62p 

Critical views on western takes vis a vis VN history and culture can be found here: Print and Power: Confucianism, Communism, and Buddhism in the Making of Modern Vietnam (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) by Shawn Frederick McHale. U Hawaii P, 2008.

Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Millenarianism and peasant politics in Vietnam. Harv. UP, 1983. (hee pub. diss. She's a full prof at Harvard.)

Vietnamese Supernaturalism: Views from the Southern Region, by Thien Do. Routledge Curzon, 2003.