Nguyen Tuan Em, "The Charitable Works of Vietnamese Caodaism," The Journal of CESNUR, 6(1), 2022

This is Nguyen Tuan Em's article The Charitable Works of Vietnamese Caodaism, published in The Journal of CESNUR, 6(1), 2022, by CESNUR, the Center for Studies on New Religions. Its strength is that it is a peer reviewed article by a scholar affiliated with Tamkang University, Taipei, synthesizing Caodaism's own religious-law texts alongside prior scholarship rather than simply relaying the tradition's own unverified claims. Its limit is that CESNUR's own founder and much of its network are on record taking a broadly sympathetic stance toward new religious movements, so a claim needing a more skeptical outside assessment of Caodaist charitable practice should be checked against a source without that same disciplinary orientation.