Living at the edge: Religion, capitalism, and the end of the nation-state in Taiwan

Public Culture

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 477-498

  Weller, Robert P ^a  

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EID: 0034413304     PISSN: 08992363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-12-2-477     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. Gary G. Hamilton, "Culture and Organization in Taiwan's Market Economy," in Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms, ed. Robert W. Hefner (Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1998), 48.
2. See Jane Kaufman Winn, "Not by Rule of Law: Mediating State-Society Relations in Taiwan through the Underground Economy," in The Other Taiwan: 1945 to the Present, ed. Murray A. Rubenstein (New York: M. E. Sharpe, 1994).
3. For a longer description, see Robert P. Weller, Resistance, Chaos, and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts, and Tiananmen (London: Macmillan, 1994), 124-43.
4. Emily Martin Ahern, Chinese Ritual and Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 99.
5. See Chiu Heiyuan and Yao Lixiang, "Taiwan Diqu Zongjiao Bianqian zhi Tantao" [Discussion of religious changes in the Taiwan area], Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 75 (1986): 657.
6. See Donald Sutton, "Transmission in Popular Religion: The Jiajiang Troupe in Southern Taiwan," in Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China, ed. Meir Shahar and Robert P. Weller (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1996), for an example of how a ritual performance style changed during the twentieth century in response to the market.
7. Brigitte Baptandier, "The Lady Linshui: How a Woman Became a Goddess," in Shahar and Weller, Unruly Gods.
8. See P. Steven Sangren, "Anthropology and Identity Politics in Taiwan: The Relevance of Local Religion" (paper presented at the Taiwan Studies Workshop, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, 1995).
9. See David K. Jordan and Daniel L. Overmyer, The Flying Phoenix: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism in Taiwan (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1986).
10. Shengxian Tang, Xiudao Zhinan [Compass for the cultivation of the Dao] (Taizhong: Dajiang Press, 1978).
11. Shengxian Tang, Xiudao Zhinan, 10.
12. See Joseph Bosco, "Yiguan Dao: 'Heterodoxy' and Popular Religion in Taiwan," in Taiwan, 1945-1991: Responses to Directed Political and Socio-Economic Change ed. Murray R. Rubenstein (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1992).
13. See Lu Hwei-syin, "Women's Self-Growth Groups and Empowerment of the 'Uterine Family' in Taiwan," Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 71 (1991): 29-62; Zhang Wei'an, "Fuojiao Ciji Gongde Hui yu Ziyuan Huishou" [The Buddhist Compassion Merit Society and recycling] (paper presented at the Workshop on Culture, Media and Society in Contemporary Taiwan, Harvard University, 12 June 1996): and Chien-yu Julia Huang and Robert P. Weller, "Merit and Mothering: Women and Social Welfare in Taiwanese Buddhism," Journal of Asian Studies 57 (1998): 379-96.
14. See Lu Hwei-syin, "Women's Self-Growth Groups and Empowerment of the 'Uterine Family' in Taiwan," Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 71 (1991): 29-62; Zhang Wei'an, "Fuojiao Ciji Gongde Hui yu Ziyuan Huishou" [The Buddhist Compassion Merit Society and recycling] (paper presented at the Workshop on Culture, Media and Society in Contemporary Taiwan, Harvard University, 12 June 1996): and Chien-yu Julia Huang and Robert P. Weller, "Merit and Mothering: Women and Social Welfare in Taiwanese Buddhism," Journal of Asian Studies 57 (1998): 379-96.
15. See Lu Hwei-syin, "Women's Self-Growth Groups and Empowerment of the 'Uterine Family' in Taiwan," Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica 71 (1991): 29-62; Zhang Wei'an, "Fuojiao Ciji Gongde Hui yu Ziyuan Huishou" [The Buddhist Compassion Merit Society and recycling] (paper presented at the Workshop on Culture, Media and Society in Contemporary Taiwan, Harvard University, 12 June 1996): and Chien-yu Julia Huang and Robert P. Weller, "Merit and Mothering: Women and Social Welfare in Taiwanese Buddhism," Journal of Asian Studies 57 (1998): 379-96.
16. Many of these techniques sound Protestant, although there is no evidence of borrowing. The general social message, however, is said to stem in part from Zhengyan's early contact with several Catholic nuns, who compared Buddhism unfavorably to Catholicism for its lack of social action.
17. When a Taiwanese graduate student of mine who had been doing research in Namibia first walked into Compassionate Relief's Taipei headquarters, she saw all the uniforms and exclaimed, "Zionists!"
18. Joanna F. Handlin Smith, "Benevolent Societies: The Reshaping of Charity During the Late Ming and Early Ch'ing," Journal of Asian Studies 46 (1987): 309-37.
19. For more on the gender issue, see Huang and Weller, "Merit and Mothering."
20. See Chiu and Yao, "Taiwan Diqu Zongjiao," 655-85.
21. Sec Robert P. Weller, "Matricidal Magistrates and Gambling Gods: Weak States and Strong Spirits in China," Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 33 (1995): 107-24.
22. Philip A. Kuhn, Soulstealers: The Chinese Sorcery Scare of 1768 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1990).
23. Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff, "Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony," American Ethnologist 26 (1999): 279-301.