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- Title
Quyền lực mềm và cuộc sống của người phụ nữ Đạo Mẫu.
- Authors
Tú Anh, Vũ Thị
- Abstract
In this study, I have sought to understand through personal interviews and participant observations the lifeworld of Đạ o Mẫu women especially those called to be đồng and đồng thầy. How does the practice of Đạ o Mẫu affect their lives, and become a source of empowerment to help them better cope with the problems of everyday lives? By performing the ritual and actualizing the outer forms that is the obligation, the woman of Đạ o Mẫu is enabled to "go beyond the norm" to surpass the bounds of ritual form and to realize an inner self in its agency, an experience or exercise which we call soft power. This soft power is not about compliance, nor submission, nor resistance, nor total conformity but a capacity for selfactualization. This study suggests the soft power approach by which Đạ o Mẫu empowers women is a viable way of bringing about change through personal development, an approach which fits the culture of Viet Nam without the overthrow and rejection of traditional values and the social dislocation this brings.
- Publication
Vietnam Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 2016, Vol 2, Issue 3, p312
- ISSN
2354-1172
- Publication type
Article