Spiritual Poaching or Authentic Dao?: A Transnational Yiguandao Community in Los Angeles Enters the Global Daoist Field
This paper explores how the Taiwanese-Chinese religious movement Yiguandao ("Way of Pervading Unity") creates a community of non-Chinese followers by utilizing Daoism-related beliefs and practices. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork conducted in California in early 2018, published...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
2024
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Journal of Chinese religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 115-151 |
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| Summary: | This paper explores how the Taiwanese-Chinese religious movement Yiguandao ("Way of Pervading Unity") creates a community of non-Chinese followers by utilizing Daoism-related beliefs and practices. Drawing on ethnographic data from fieldwork conducted in California in early 2018, published Yiguandao materials, and internet resources, the paper argues that Yiguandao activists specifically invest their messages in Daoist symbols, beliefs, and practices to reach out to non-Chinese sympathizers of "Asian philosophies" and eventually to establish a global and cross-cultural community of Dao followers. By discussing a case study from Los Angeles, the paper seeks to understand the patterns of Yiguandao activists’ engagement with Daoism and how their efforts blend into establishing a global Daoist field. Finally, it thereby invites us to rethink the often haphazardly drawn boundaries - both by practitioners and scholars - between Daoism and other religious phenomena, including New Age, spirituality, and Chinese popular sects. 摘要: 本文擬探討華人宗教團體 - 貫道如何利用道教、道家相關信仰與實踐創建 - 個非華人道親群體。根據2018年初筆者在美國加利福尼亞州進行的田野調查資料 - 貫道文獻與網絡上的資料，本文論證 - 貫道洛杉磯道場的道親們有意地用道教、道家符號、信仰和實踐以接觸「東方哲學」的非華人追尋者，並終於建立 - 個全球性、跨文化性的「道」信徒。通過討論洛杉磯的個案研究，本文試圖了解本道場的道親們進行道教、道家相關的模式，以及他們如何參與全球道教領域 ( global Daoist field )。從而，本文促使我們重新思考道教與其他宗教現象（包括歐美新紀元運動、靈性和中國民間教派）之間的界限 - 無論是「主位」（道教修行者）還是「客位」（學者）經常地劃定界限。 |
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| ISSN: | 2050-8999 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Chinese religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/jcr.2024.a928802 |