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