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.
Abstract
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).
- HRAF PubDate
- 1995
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- M. A. Marcus
- Field Date
- 1966
- Coverage Date
- not specified
- Coverage Place
- 'Mountainstreet' village, Taipei hsien, Taiwan
- Notes
- Stephan Feuchtwang
- Includes bibliography
- LCSH
- Taiwanese