Question

Answer the following question.
Describe the role of different religious groups in the development of anti-colonial feelings in Vietnam.

Answer 1

Vietnam’s religious beliefs were a mixture of Buddhism, Confucianism, and local practices. The elites in Vietnam were educated in Chinese and Confucianism. But religious beliefs among the peasantry were shaped by a variety of syncretic traditions that combined Buddhism and local beliefs. Christianity, introduced by French missionaries, was intolerant of this easygoing attitude and viewed the Vietnamese tendency to revere the supernatural as something to be corrected. This turned many religious movements hostile to the Western presence. Scholars movement in 1868 and the Hoa Hoa led to uprisings and attracted the masses by widespread and developing anti-colonial feelings in Vietnam.