Book Review: Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam's Highlands by Seb Rumsby

Blog: LSE Southeast Asia Blog

Abstract

In Development in Spirit: Religious Transformation and Everyday Politics in Vietnam’s Highlands, Seb Rumsby argues that in the form of Christian conversion, development to the Hmong can and does look different to the development agendas pursued by the state. In the case of the Hmong, their trajectories of development fall largely outside state planning, which leads … Continued