自2008年開始，由於越南官方與天主教、佛教等宗教團體間之緊張關係幾經升溫，使得1986年越南革新以來越南宗教復甦的樂觀情勢為之頓挫。越南宗教之發展似乎與政治力難脫干係，然宗教與政治之關係如何演變至此，此一問題應由近代開始追索。本文之主旨，即在對越南近現代之歷史進行爬梳，進而理解越南政治與宗教關係之實相。由結論可知，舉凡越南宗教之自主性、參政之能力、投入革命或公共事務之範疇，皆決定於當下之政教關係，而此一關係又多半是由政治來予以決定。

Since 2008, the tense between the Vietnamese government and main religious organizations have disillusioned the optimistic view of the renaissance of Vietnamese religions after Doi Moi. Before answering the current situation, we need to make sense of the relationship between religions and politics through the modern Vietnamese history. The main idea of this article is to figure out the relation between politics and religions in modern Vietnam by reviewing its history. The conclusion fell upon the discovery that the politics could not only determine a religion's autonomy, capability of participating in politics and the scope of its contribution into revolutions or public affairs, but also the relation of religion and itself.