Chinese Ritual and Politics

Ahern, Emily Martin

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“…Folk religion consists of a blend of deities and practices coming from Buddhism, Taoism, divination, and ancestor worship. The main focus of folk religion is the propitiation of death including sacrifice to the ancestors, selecting auspicious burial sites, warding off "ghosts" or malevolent spirits, and worshiping a pantheon of gods (Ahern, 1981;Wolf, 1978). 3.…”

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East Asian Religious Tolerance—A Myth or a Reality? Empirical Investigations of Religious Prejudice in East Asian Societies

Clobert

Saroglou

Hwang

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Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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Is East Asian religious tolerance, as opposed to Western monotheistic prejudice, a stereotype or a reality? Based on theoretical and empirical evidence, we hypothesized low prejudice as a function of East Asian religiosity. We examined whether this holds true for interreligious, anti-atheist, ethnic, and anti-gay prejudice. In Study 1, analysis of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) 2008 data from Eastern religious and Christian samples in Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan (total N = 3,555) showed, contrarily to Christians, high interreligious tolerance and weaker if no anti-gay prejudice as a function of Eastern religiosity. In Study 2, Eastern religiosity among Taiwanese (n = 222) was negatively related to prejudice against various religious outgroups (except atheists), especially among those low in authoritarianism. In Study 3, Eastern religiosity among Taiwanese (n = 102) was negatively related to implicit interreligious (Muslims) and ethnic (Africans) prejudice; prosociality partially mediated the former association. Eastern religious tolerance seems to be true, but not unlimited.

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East Asian Religious Tolerance—A Myth or a Reality? Empirical Investigations of Religious Prejudice in East Asian Societies

Clobert

Saroglou

Hwang

et al. 2014

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology

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“…Popular religion and associated rituals were given meanings far beyond individual acts of faith and worship (Wolf 1974;Ahern 1981;Watson 1985;Ward 1985). Th ey were long used to demarcate spatial divisions and temporal rhythms of life, to affi rm identities and social hierarchies, and to acquire political etiquette.…”

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2. The Original Translocal Society: Making Chaolian from Land and Sea

Siu¹,

Liu²

2015

Asia Inside Out

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In the last few centuries, a substantial stretch of river marshes (sha 沙) emerged in the middle of a major tributary of Xijiang , the largest river system on the western edge of the Pearl River delta in southern China. Eventually named Chaolian xiang (潮連鄉), the island community was built by generations of fi shermen and settlers who fi shed, farmed, traded, and reclaimed river marshes. Th e history of settlement involved various groups who used symbolic and instrumental means to claim rights to the land, absorbed some newcomers while excluding others, created cultural identities, social institutions, and political alliances to become part of the late imperial order. Th ey left material records-temples, ancestral halls, river-landings, neighborhood shrines, burial grounds, stone stele commemorating renovations of communal buildings, marking markets, and managing confl icts. Documents were varied-local gazetteers, literary writings, lineage genealogies, political petitions, offi cial edicts, religious and ritual texts, trade and tax accounts.A close reading of these materials reveals narrative traditions privileging real or imaginary authorities of a land-based, literati-dominated state formation. Th ese forms marginalize certain populations and networks that were linked to maritime-based historical processes, which could have been signifi cant to the local community. We hope to uncover the missing links and highlight cultural Brought to you by | Florida Atlantic University Authenticated Download Date | 8/8/15 8:41 PM

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“…Turning to the specific case of chhiam divination in Taiwan and southeast China, I find that the literature, although elucidating the relationship of chhiam to other literary texts (Eberhard 1970), exploring the history of chhiam poems (Banck 1976;Dore 1966;Morgan 1987), and attempting to place chhiam in wider psychological (Hsu 1976), political (Ahern 1981;Feuchtwang 1992), and socioeconomic contexts (Lang and Ragvald 1993;Tsai 1968;Zhu 1992:18), often omits a careful look at chhiam texts as poetry. Chhaim texts intersect with local drama, domestic organization, and life histories.…”

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Fate in the Narrativity and Experience of Selfhood, a Case From Taiwanese Chhiam Divination

Hatfield

2002

American Ethnologist

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In this article, I examine the deployment of poetry in Taiwanese practices of calculating fate. Observing that fate is both a grounding notion to self-representation in narrative and to the recognition of efficacious agents in a social field, I analyze texts and interpretive practices of poetic divination, attending to specific features that give fate its compelling qualities. Most important among these features is the chronotopic character of divination poems, which shape the experience of selfhood in alternation and encounter through time. Investigating how poetic contrast sets (such as those between gathering and dispersal, fate as coterminous with a lifespan and fate as linked to specific opportunities) produce these chronotopes, I ask how the poetics of fate informs the distribution and abeyance of agency in particular situations of crisis. In particular, I focus on crises that lead to divination, emerging as fresh junctures in life historical narratives. Finally, in light of the role of fate in the interpretation of these variously distributed junctures and agents, I suggest that the notion of fate could inform ethnographic work on micropolitics.[divination, poetics, chronotopes, narrativity, agency, life history, Taiwan] Fate and freedom are promised to each other. -Buber, / and Thou On the steps of Lokkang Longsan si (m: Lukang Longshan szu), A-Sian, a spirit medium in one of Lokkang's many neighborhood temples, told me a story about his first glimpse of the Longsan si temple. 1 The story was part of a larger narrative about his family's return to their hometown, following his father's 20-year sojourn in Kohiong (Kaohsiung), a major industrial city to the south, where A-Sian was born. The events occurred in 1977, when A-Sian was six: This place [Longsan si] has always given me a mysterious, sacred feeling. When my father brought us back here [to Lokkang], that evening, we came over here. In those days, the area in front of the temple was not all cleaned up like it is today. It was full of amusements and small stands. It was all very noisy and bustling [nao-jiat, m: re-nao\. When you would enter the gate, it was like going from a noisy market to a still place. And the eaves, although none of it was repaired yet, were so high and fantastically carved. Maybe this was because I was so small then. Thick clouds of incense twisted about the rafters, giving one the feeling of magical power [leng; m: ling]. In the market, my parents bought my brother and me balloons. My brother's was red and round. Mine was blue-green and long. Because we were mischievous kids, we got into a scuffle; and in the temple, I lost hold of my balloon. It floated high into the ceiling. I remember American Ethnologist 29(4):857-877. american ethnologistit clearly there, the balloon floating up there amid the carved rafters, incense curling about them. That is when I began to think of Longsan si as efficacious.When I met A-Sian in 1993, he shared a wanderer's fate with his father. Whereas his parents remained in Lokkang, A-Sian lived betwe...

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Chinese Ritual and Politics

Cited by 91 publications

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East Asian Religious Tolerance—A Myth or a Reality? Empirical Investigations of Religious Prejudice in East Asian Societies

East Asian Religious Tolerance—A Myth or a Reality? Empirical Investigations of Religious Prejudice in East Asian Societies

2. The Original Translocal Society: Making Chaolian from Land and Sea

Fate in the Narrativity and Experience of Selfhood, a Case From Taiwanese Chhiam Divination

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