Religion in Modern Taiwan: Tradition and Innovation in a Changing Society

Type
Book
ISBN 10
0824825640 
ISBN 13
9780824825645 
Category
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Publication Year
2003 
Pages
333 pages  
Subject
Taiwan Religion. 
Abstract
1. Religion in Taiwan at the end of the Japanese colonial period / Charles B. Jones -- 2. Stability and change in Taiwan's religious culture / Julian Pas -- 3. Carrying Confucianism into the modern world: the Taiwan case / Christian Jochim -- 4. Chinese tradition and Taiwanese modernity: morality books as social commentary and critique / Philip Clart -- 5. The cult of the royal lords in postwar Taiwan / Paul R. Katz -- 6. The Daoist priesthood and secular society: two aspects of postwar Taiwanese Daoism / Lee Fong-Mao -- 7. Religious change and democratization in postwar Taiwan: mainstream Buddhist organizations and the Kuomintang, 1947-1996 / André Laliberté -- 8. Guanyin narratives: wartime and postwar / Barbara E. Reed -- 9. Christianity and democratization in modern Taiwan: the Presbyterian church and the struggle for Minnan/Hakka selfhood in the Republic of China / Murray A. Rubinstein -- 10. Accepting the best, revealing the difference: borrowing and identity in an Ami village / Huang Shiun-Wey -- 11. Gods, ghosts, and anscestors: religious studies and the question of 'Taiwanese identity' / Randall Nadeau & Chang Hsun. 
Description
x, 333 pages : 1 map ; 24 cm 
Biblio Notes
51755852  
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