Why Build a Temple?: The Materialization of New Community Ideals in the Demilitarized Islands between China and Taiwan
Since the early twentieth century religion has been seen by the Chinese state and intellectuals as an obstacle to modernization and has thus been devalued. This article points out how this pejorative view of religion has latently persisted in contemporary Taiwan in the formulation of an important po...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis
[2017]
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Material religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 131-155 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Matsu (Island)
/ Religious community
/ Temple construction
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RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism KBM Asia |
Further subjects: | B
materialization
B China B Taiwan B Chinese religion B Mazu Islands B Community |
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