essay
Domestic and communal worship in Taiwan
Religion and ritual in Chinese society • Stanford, Calif. • Published In 1974 • Pages: 105-129, 355-356
By: Feuchtwang, Stephan.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Feuchtwang describes 'the religious system reproduced in the annual round of…domestic and communal ritual' in a town that he calls 'Mountainstreet', and seeks 'to extract the selective definition of society that the system implies' (p. 106). Data are presented concerning the significance of home and temple altars, the ceremonial calendar, and the correspondence of certain categories of gods, ghosts, and ancestors with the authority structure of the imperial Chinese state. Thus the religious metaphor 'is one of rulers as a ruling system of gods and of ruled as an outcast mass of KUI' (spirits).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cult of the dead
- Eschatology
- Spirits and gods
- Sacred objects and places
- 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.
- 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
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1966
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- 'Mountainstreet' village, Taipei hsien, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Stephan Feuchtwang
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese