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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Religion in Modern Taiwan: Tradition and Innovation in a Changing Society
 9780824845063

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

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