A Vietnamese faith founded in 1926 that honors God as Cao Dai and gathers the prophets of the world's religions into one harmonious revelation.
Caodaism began in 1926 near Saigon, when Ngo Van Chieu and then a circle of officials received messages they held to come from God, calling himself Cao Dai. The faith unites Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Christianity, and Islam in one system, venerates figures from Buddha and Jesus to Victor Hugo, and worships at temples led by a hierarchy modeled in part on the Roman Catholic Church. Most of its millions of adherents live in southern Vietnam.
Sources
Primary
- Pháp Chánh Truyền, the constitution of Caodaism received in 1926.
Secondary
- Victor L. Oliver, Caodai Spiritism: A Study of Religion in Vietnamese Society (1976).
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