Religion In Modern Taiwan

Author : Philip Clart,Charles B. Jones
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780824845063

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Religion in Modern Taiwan takes a new look at Taiwan's current religious traditions and their fortunes during the twentieth century. Beginning with the cession of Taiwan to Japan in 1895 and the currents of modernization that accompanied it, the essays move on to explore the developments that have taken place as Buddhists, Daoists, Christians, non-Han aborigines, and others have confronted, resisted, and adapted to (even thrived in) the many upheavals of the modern period. An overview of Taiwan's current religious scene is followed by a comprehensive look at the state of religion in the country prior to the end of World War II and the return of Taiwan to Chinese sovereignty. The remaining essays probe aspects of change within individual religious traditions. The final chapter analyzes changes that took place in the scholarly study and interpretation of religion in Taiwan during the course of the twentieth century. Religion in Modern Taiwan will be read with interest by students and scholars of Chinese religion, religion in Taiwan, the modern history of Taiwan, and by those concerned with issues of religion and modernization. Contributors: Chang Hsun, Philip Clart, Shiun-wey Huang, Christian Jochim, Charles B. Jones, Paul Katz, André Laliberté, Lee Fong-mao, Randall Nadeau, Julian Pas, Barbara Reed, Murray A. Rubinstein.

Author : Philip Clart,Charles B. Jones
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0824825640

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Religion in Modern Taiwan by Philip Clart,Charles B. Jones Pdf

Religion in Modern Taiwan takes a new look at Taiwan's current religious traditions and their fortunes during the twentieth century. Beginning with the cession of Taiwan to Japan in 1895 and the currents of modernization that accompanied it, the essays move on to explore the developments that have taken place as Buddhists, Daoists, Christians, non-Han aborigines, and others have confronted, resisted, and adapted to (even thrived in) the many upheavals of the modern period. An overview of Taiwan's current religious scene is followed by a comprehensive look at the state of religion in the country prior to the end of World War II and the return of Taiwan to Chinese sovereignty. The remaining essays probe aspects of change within individual religious traditions. The final chapter analyzes changes that took place in the scholarly study and interpretation of religion in Taiwan during the course of the twentieth century. Religion in Modern Taiwan will be read with interest by students and scholars of Chinese religion, religion in Taiwan, the modern history of Taiwan, and by those concerned with issues of religion and modernization. Contributors: Chang Hsun, Philip Clart, Shiun-wey Huang, Christian Jochim, Charles B. Jones, Paul Katz, André Laliberté, Lee Fong-mao, Randall Nadeau, Julian Pas, Barbara Reed, Murray A. Rubinstein.

Author : Murray A. Rubinstein
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 087332658X

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The Protestant Community on Modern Taiwan by Murray A. Rubinstein Pdf

Author : Institute of Ethnology Academia Sinica
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : China
ISBN : 1625033605

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Religion in Taiwan and China by Institute of Ethnology Academia Sinica Pdf

This book explores how religion is and has been created, transmitted, embodied and changed in specific locations in late imperial, modern and contemporary Taiwan and China. Locating research not only on temples, mosques, churches, schools, tea houses, festival sites, burial grounds and shrines, but also cities, neighbourhoods, counties and districts, it explores the rich, and often overlooked, details that fill the lived experience of people doing religion. Seeking to focus on interactions between place, text and agency, this book aims to reflect on the layered and specific histories that develop as a consequence of this interplay. By reducing the scale of the studies to a specific locale, phenomena such as religious change, conversion practice, individual transformation and the transmission of texts, authority, and charisma, can be reappraised. The contributors to this volume explore questions such as: How do the particular circumstances of time and place shape religious experience? What is specific to a location that influences the nature of religious practice there? What religious power is embodied in a place? How are narratives created around a location? What is characteristic of the religious world in a particular place? In particular, and in different ways, they ask how and why individual texts or sets of texts are transmitted in a particular place at a particular time, how such specific circumstances influence the transmission of authority within a group (or help to disperse that authority), and how authority and charisma are related to specific locations.

Author : Stefania Travagnin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317534525

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Religion and Media in China by Stefania Travagnin Pdf

This volume focuses on the intersection of religion and media in China, bringing interdisciplinary approaches to bear on the role of religion in the lives of individuals and greater shifts within Chinese society in an increasingly media-saturated environment. With case studies focusing on Mainland China (including Tibet), Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as diasporic Chinese communities outside Asia, contributors consider topics including the historical and ideological roots of media representations of religion, expressions of religious faith online and in social media, state intervention (through both censorship and propaganda), religious institutions’ and communities’ use of various forms of media, and the role of the media in relations between online/offline and local/diaspora communities. Chapters engage with the major religious traditions practiced in contemporary China, namely Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, and new religious movements. Religion and the Media in China serves as a critical survey of case studies and suggests theoretical and methodological tools for a thorough and systematic study of religion in modern China. Contributors to the volume include historians of religion, sinologists, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, and media and communication scholars. The critical theories that contributors develop around key concepts in religion—such as authority, community, church, ethics, pilgrimage, ritual, text, and practice—contribute to advancing the emerging field of religion and media studies.

Author : Kai-Ti Chou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124064366

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Contemporary Religious Movements in Taiwan by Kai-Ti Chou Pdf

Presents a study of the recruitment strategies and conversion rhetoric in contemporary religious movements, focusing primarily on two movements in Taiwan, Tzu Chi and Falun Gong. This work demonstrates that an examination of such rhetoric has the potential to provide genuine insights into how a given religion gains adherents.

Author : Eleanor B. Morris Wu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 3805005148

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From China to Taiwan by Eleanor B. Morris Wu Pdf

More than 700 established Chinese folk religious temples on the island of Taiwan today give ample evidence of the fact that they are not strictly just Buddhist, Taoist, or Confucian, but rather a combination of these three religions plus other elements of a magico-religious nature, thus in practice blurring the line between the "sacred" and the "profane." In her present study, the author ventures into the field of Chinese folk religion with a wider anthropological, historical, and sociological perspective, presenting its philosophical and religious content, domestic religious practices, the symbolism of gods and goddesses, and other related aspects. Eleanor B. Morris Wu's study provides a starting-point for those interested in these fascinating and colourful facets of Chinese religions as they are lived and practiced in Taiwan today. Contents: Introduction - Historical Parameters of Modern Taiwan in an Anthropological Context Early History and Anthropology of Taiwan to the Succession to the Japanese From the Succession of Taiwan to the Japanese to the Retrocession to the Chinese Nationalists From China to Taiwan. Agricultural, State, and Industrial Involution in a Lineage Context The Philosophical and Religious Content of Chinese Religion The Historical Background of Three Taiwanese Folk Temples The Symbolic Structure of Three Taiwanese Chinese Folk Temples Chinese Roots of Taiwanese Sectarianism An Overview of the Varieties of Religious Practices in Taipei Bibliography

Author : André Laliberté
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134353538

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The Politics of Buddhist Organizations in Taiwan, 1989-2003 by André Laliberté Pdf

Laliberté looks at a relatively unexplored aspect of modern Taiwan: the influence of religion on politics. This book offers a detailed survey of three of the most important Buddhist organizations in Taiwan: the Buddhist Association of the Republic of China (BAROC), the Buddha Light Mountain (or Foguanshan) monastic order, and the Buddhist Compassion Relief Tzu Chi Association (or Ciji). It examines their contrasting approaches to three issues: state supervision of religion, the first presidential election of 1996, and the establishment of the National Health Insurance. This study analyzes the factors that explain the diverse paths the three organizations have taken in the politics of Taiwan. Based on an in-depth examination of Buddhist leaders' behaviour, The Politics of Buddhist Organizations in Taiwan compels us to question conventional views about the allegedly passive aspect of religious tradition, deference to authority in societies influenced by Confucian culture and the adverse legacy of authoritarian regimes.

Author : Francis K.H. So,Beatrice K.F. Leung,Ellen Mary Mylod
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811066658

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The Catholic Church in Taiwan by Francis K.H. So,Beatrice K.F. Leung,Ellen Mary Mylod Pdf

This book provides a ground breaking interdisciplinary study of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, focusing on the post 1949 Civil War in China through to the present day, and discusses the role played by the Catholic Church in contemporary Taiwanese society. It considers the situation of the Catholic church of Taiwan during the Japanese Occupation, Taiwan-Vatican Relations from 1949 onwards and triangular Relations among the Vatican, Taiwan and China during Tsai Ing-wen’s Administration. Written from a wide range of perspectives, from history and international relations to literature, philosophy, and education, this volume offers an important perspective on the birth and development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, contributing a key work to religious studies in the Greater China Region.

Author : Paul R. Katz
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611685435

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Religion in China and Its Modern Fate by Paul R. Katz Pdf

Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites traditionally considered models of secular modernity. The author offers a rare look at the monumental changes that have affected modern Chinese religions, from the first all-out assault on them during the 1898 reforms to the eve of the Communist takeover of the mainland. Tracing the ways in which the vast religious resources (texts, expertise, symbolic capital, material wealth, etc.) that circulated throughout Chinese society during the late imperial period were reconfigured during this later era, Katz sheds new light on modern Chinese religious life and the understudied nexus between religion and modern political culture. Religion in China and Its Modern Fate will appeal to a broad audience of religionists and historians of modern China.

Author : Francis K.H. So,Beatrice K.F. Leung,Ellen Mary Mylod
Publisher : Springer
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811066689

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The Catholic Church in Taiwan by Francis K.H. So,Beatrice K.F. Leung,Ellen Mary Mylod Pdf

This book provides a key analysis of the development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, and considers the challenges it faces in contemporary times. It examines how the 1949 revolution in Mainland China brought a great number of Chinese intellectuals to Taiwan and provided the Taiwan Catholic Church with valuable human asset for theological and liturgical indigenization. This volume considers different aspects of the development of the Taiwan Catholic Church in the context of indigenization, and examines how the multi-faceted aspects of Catholicism in the Taiwan Catholic Church are revealed through history, philosophy, social science, linguistics, music and literature.

Author : Daniel L. Overmyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-07-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521538238

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Religion in China Today by Daniel L. Overmyer Pdf

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Author : James Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781851096312

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Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies by James Miller Pdf

A comprehensive introduction to the resurgence of religion in China and Taiwan since the end of the Cultural Revolution and a wide-ranging examination of the impact of religious traditions on Euro-Americans and Chinese immigrants in present-day North America. Chinese Religions in Contemporary Societies is an accessible, multidimensional introduction to religions in present-day China and Taiwan as well as an in-depth exploration of how religious traditions and practices have been adopted by Americans and Chinese immigrants in North America. The work covers the period since the Cultural Revolution but places its focus on the contemporary global context. Written by religious studies expert James Miller and eight acclaimed scholars, this handy one-volume reference answers the demand for a comprehensive yet highly readable work on Chinese religions and their various forms. The work breaks down the complexities of religious traditions, highlighting key issues, themes, and movements, such as the legacy of shamanism in popular Chinese and Taiwanese religion, qigong in contemporary China, and the interpretations and practices of Chinese traditions and rituals in North America. Filling a significant gap in the literature, the handbook demonstrates the impact of social, political, and cultural factors on Chinese religion and identifies the forces behind the prevalence, adaptation, and transformation of Chinese religious practices from a global perspective.

Author : P. Katz,M. Rubenstein
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781403981738

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Religion and the Formation of Taiwanese Identities by P. Katz,M. Rubenstein Pdf

This volume centres on the creation of varied forms of individual and group identity in Taiwan, and the relationship between these forms of identity, both individual and collective, and patterns of Taiwanese religion, politics, and culture. The contributors explore the Taiwanese people's sense of who they are, attempting to discern how they identify themselves as individuals and as collectives and then try to determine the identity/roles individuals and groups construct for themselves. Ranging from the local essays to the national level and within the larger Chinese cultural/religious universe, these essays explore the complex nature of identity/role and the processes of identity formation which have shaped Taiwan's multileveled past and its many faceted present.

Author : Carolyn Chen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780691164663

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Getting Saved in America by Carolyn Chen Pdf

What does becoming American have to do with becoming religious? Many immigrants become more religious after coming to the United States. Taiwanese are no different. Like many Asian immigrants to the United States, Taiwanese frequently convert to Christianity after immigrating. But Americanization is more than simply a process of Christianization. Most Taiwanese American Buddhists also say they converted only after arriving in the United States even though Buddhism is a part of Taiwan's dominant religion. By examining the experiences of Christian and Buddhist Taiwanese Americans, Getting Saved in America tells "a story of how people become religious by becoming American, and how people become American by becoming religious." Carolyn Chen argues that many Taiwanese immigrants deal with the challenges of becoming American by becoming religious. Based on in-depth interviews with Taiwanese American Christians and Buddhists, and extensive ethnographic fieldwork at a Taiwanese Buddhist temple and a Taiwanese Christian church in Southern California, Getting Saved in America is the first book to compare how two religions influence the experiences of one immigrant group. By showing how religion transforms many immigrants into Americans, it sheds new light on the question of how immigrants become American.