essay
Religious organization in the history of a Taiwanese town
Religion and ritual in Chinese society • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1974 • Pages: 71-92, 354
By: Wang, Shih-ch'ing.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay is concerned with historical changes in the town of Shu-lin which engendered changes in how membership in religious organizations is defined. The kinds of religious communities that are discussed draw their members on the basis either of residence (i.e., territory) or kinship affiliation, ethnic identity, or devotion to a paricular god.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Cultural participation
- Settlement patterns
- Spirits and gods
- Prayers and sacrifices
- Congregations
- Organized ceremonial
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus; Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 'history'
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Shu-lin town, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Shih-ch'ing Wang
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese