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Religion and the Formation of Taiwanese Identities

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  1. Paul R. Katz
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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. The Many Meanings Of Identity: An Introduction

    • Paul R. Katz, Murray A. Rubinstein
    Pages 1-22

  3. On The Origins And Transformation Of Taiwanese National Identity

    • Mau-kuei Chang
    Pages 23-58

  4. Shifting National Identities In Public Spheres: A Cultural Account Of Political Transformation In Taiwan

    • Duujian Tsai
    Pages 59-97

  5. Hand Puppet Theater Performance: Emergent Structures And The Resurgence Of Taiwanese Identity

    • Sue-mei Wu
    Pages 99-121

  6. The Quest for Difference Versus The Wish To Assimilate: Taiwan’s Aborigines And their Struggle for Cultural Survival in Times of Multiculturalism

    • Michael Rudolph
    Pages 123-155

  7. Identity Politics And The Study Of Popular Religion In Postwar Taiwan

    • Paul R. Katz
    Pages 157-180

  8. “Medium/Message” In Taiwan’S Mazu-Cult Centers: Using “Time, Space, And Word” To Foster Island-Wide Spiritual Consciousness And Local, Regional, And National Forms Of Institutional Identity

    • Murray A. Rubinstein
    Pages 181-218

  9. Righteous Brothers and Demon Slayers: Subjectivities and Collective Identities in Taiwanese Temple Processions

    • Avron A. Boretz
    Pages 219-251

  10. Anthropology and Identity Politics in Taiwan: The Relevance of Local Religion

    • P. Steven Sangren
    Pages 253-287

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 289-294
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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. The contributors explore the Taiwanese people's sense of who they are, attempting to discern how they identify themselves as individuals and as collectives and then try to determine the identity/roles individuals and groups construct for themselves. Ranging from the local essays to the national level and within the larger Chinese cultural/religious universe, these essays explore the complex nature of identity/role and the processes of identity formation which have shaped Taiwan's multileveled past and its many faceted present.

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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.

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