Religion in Modern Taiwan: Tradition and Innovation in a Changing Society 9780824845063
Religion in Modern Taiwan takes a new look at Taiwan's current religious traditions and their fortunes during the t
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English Pages 344 Year 2003
Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Religion in Taiwan at the End of the Japanese Colonial Period
2. Stability and Change in Taiwan’s Religious Culture
3. Carrying Confucianism into the Modern World: The Taiwan Case
4. Chinese Tradition and Taiwanese Modernity: Morality Books as Social Commentary and Critique
5. The Cult of the Royal Lords in Postwar Taiwan
6. The Daoist Priesthood and Secular Society: Two Aspects of Postwar Taiwanese Daoism
7. Religious Change and Democratization in Postwar Taiwan: Mainstream Buddhist Organizations and the Kuomintang, 1947–1996
8. Guanyin Narratives—Wartime and Postwar
9. Christianity and Democratization in Modern Taiwan: The Presbyterian Church and the Struggle for Minnan/Hakka Selfhood in the Republic of China
10. Accepting the Best, Revealing the Difference— Borrowing and Identity in an Ami Village
11. Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Religious Studies and the Question of “Taiwanese Identity”
Glossary
Contributors
Index
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Religion in Taiwan at the End of the Japanese Colonial Period
2. Stability and Change in Taiwan’s Religious Culture
3. Carrying Confucianism into the Modern World: The Taiwan Case
4. Chinese Tradition and Taiwanese Modernity: Morality Books as Social Commentary and Critique
5. The Cult of the Royal Lords in Postwar Taiwan
6. The Daoist Priesthood and Secular Society: Two Aspects of Postwar Taiwanese Daoism
7. Religious Change and Democratization in Postwar Taiwan: Mainstream Buddhist Organizations and the Kuomintang, 1947–1996
8. Guanyin Narratives—Wartime and Postwar
9. Christianity and Democratization in Modern Taiwan: The Presbyterian Church and the Struggle for Minnan/Hakka Selfhood in the Republic of China
10. Accepting the Best, Revealing the Difference— Borrowing and Identity in an Ami Village
11. Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors: Religious Studies and the Question of “Taiwanese Identity”
Glossary
Contributors
Index
- Author / Uploaded
- Philip Clart (editor)
- Charles B. Jones (editor)
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