Religion and the Formation of Taiwanese Identities

ISBN-13: 9781349387038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 294 str.

Paul R. Katz; Murray A. Rubinstein; P. Katz

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Many Meanings of Identity; P.A.Katz & M.A.Rubenstein On the Origins and Transformation of Taiwanese National Identity; C.Maukuei Shifting National Identities in Public Spheres: A Cultural Account of Political Transformation in Taiwan; D.Tsai Popular Media and the Promotion of Identity on Taiwan; M.Y.T.Rawnsley Puppet Theatre and Taiwanese Cultural Identity; W.Su-mei The Quest for Difference Versus the Wish to Assimilate; M.Rudolph Identity Politics and the Study of Popular Religion in Postwar Taiwan; P.A.Katz Mazu in China-Wide Perspective; J.Bosco Popular Religion in a Southern Taiwanese Community; F.Aello Martial Cults in Southwestern Taiwan; A.Boretz Questions of Religion and Identity; P.S.Sangren

O autorze

PAUL R. KATZ teaches at the Institute of History, National Central University, Taiwan. He is the author of Demon Hordes and Burning Boats: The Cult of Marshall Wen in Late Imperial Checkiang, The Cult of Royal Lords in Taiwan, and Images of the Immortal: The Cult of Lü Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy.

MURRAY RUBENSTEIN is a specialist in Modern East Asia. His monographs are The Protestant Community on Modern Taiwan, and The Origins of the Anglo-American Missionary Enterprise in China, 1807-1840. He has edited The Other Taiwan and Taiwan, 1600-1996 and published articles and books in journals in the United States, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Taiwan and Hong Kong.