TAILIEUCHUNG - Impacts of protestantism on Mong migrants in Dak Lak province
Protestants account for the majority of the Mong (or H’mong) people migrating from Northern Vietnamese provinces to Dak Lak province in the Central Highlands. Attention has been paid by the State management agencies and researchers to the studies on the religion of Protestantism in general and its practice among the Mong people in particular. Many Mong people have followed the religion because they consider it to be more positive than the ethnic group’s traditional one, which includes many costly rituals and backward customs that are not appropriate to the modern life. Yet, the abandonment of the traditional religion and beliefs to follow a new one, besides positive impacts, entails also negative ones. | Impacts of Protestantism on Mong Migrants in Dak Lak Province Pham Van Duong1, Vu Thi Ha1 1 Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences. Email: phamvanduongvme@ Received: 7 October, 2016. Accepted: 21 November, 2016. Abstract: Protestants account for the majority of the Mong (or H’mong) people migrating from Northern Vietnamese provinces to Dak Lak province in the Central Highlands. Attention has been paid by the State management agencies and researchers to the studies on the religion of Protestantism in general and its practice among the Mong people in particular. Many Mong people have followed the religion because they consider it to be more positive than the ethnic group’s traditional one, which includes many costly rituals and backward customs that are not appropriate to the modern life. Yet, the abandonment of the traditional religion and beliefs to follow a new one, besides positive impacts, entails also negative ones. Keywords: Mong people, migration, Protestantism, Dak Lak. 1. Introduction Due to various reasons, after 1975, a number of Mong people migrated from Vietnam’s northern provinces to the Central Highlands. In the 1990s, they migrated in greater numbers and more massively, with the destination being mostly Dak Lak province. Since the year 2000 up to now, the migration has still been taking place in a quieter manner, with the quantity being on the decline. By early 2015, the total number of Mong people migrating to Dak Lak had reached 22,760 [1]. Among them, 1,242 households (6,433 people) arrived from 2005 to March 2015. In 2008, when the number of Mong migrants reached the highest point, it included 468 households (2,869 people). The figure went lowest in 2013, when only 8 households (39 people) arrived. In terms of spiritual activities, the community is divided into two groups: one keeping the traditional religion and belief of the Mong people (from the North), and the other practicing Protestantism. Of the .
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