• “Rumor Has It, They Don’t Grow   Religion in Their Land” by Tini Ngatini

    When I first came to the Bồ Đề Pagoda to see this fish release ritual in person, to observe each religious gesture and object involved in it, to listen to the invocation of the divine name, to hear them telling me the story of the ritual and reasons behind it, I already knew what it…

  • Tet @ the Coffee Shop by Tini Ngatini

    Viet Nam has changed my relationship with coffee shops. They used to be a space where I worked and entertained my friends. Then, recently, they became a sort of anthropological space where I encountered a religious event which brought me to another level of appreciation and respect for local culture. That local culture is called…

José Guadalupe Posada