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The Creation of the 1997 Cao Dai Sect

Facing mounting international criticisms, in the early 1990โ€™s the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) adopted a new strategy: to force Cao Dai Religion adherents to join a new religion that they would create and control. The Secretariat of the VPCโ€™s Central Committee on...

The Cao Dai Religion vs. its Impostor

The Cao Dai Religion vs. its Impostor

The Impersonator: The government-created "1997 Sect" Cao Daiism is an endogenous syncretic religion founded in 1926 in Vietnam. Estimated number of Cao Dai followers varies between 2.5 and 5 million. In 1983, the government practically abolished the Cao Dai Church and...