Religion, modernization and spatiality in Taiwan

Taiwan has been undergoing an important religious revival in the past forty-years. However, while religiosity used to be mainly locally based, the progressive modernization of the island led to new forms of country-wide temple lineages and displaced forms of worship. The aim of this project is to look at how this shift in religious location took place as well as how it is lived, produced, and assumed by the Taiwanese urbanites. Through the Mitacs Globalink Awards, I hope to gain the opportunity to be a visiting student at the Graduate Institute of Religious Studies at the National Chengchi University, Taipei. Under the mentorship of my host supervisor, Professor Yu-Chen Li, I would be able to do the necessary on-ground research in Taipei and come up with both empirical data and a suitable problematic for my MA thesis. As a visiting student, I also hope to visit the unique library collection, and thus gain necessary access to the history of current temple lineages.

Faculty Supervisor:

Rongdao Lai

Student:

Partner:

National Chengchi University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Other

University:

McGill University

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