本書探討近現代與當代中國與臺灣的宗教是如何在一個特定地區被創造，傳承，實踐，與變遷。研究地點挑選了諸如寺廟，回教聖地，教堂，學校，茶館，儀式場所，墳地與神壇之外，還有城市，社區，郡縣，而能發現以往被忽略卻極端豐富的細節，讓讀者看到了宗教實踐者活生生的經驗世界。為了理解地方、人物與文本之間的互動關係，本書更是耙梳了層疊與個別的歷史事件與事蹟，梳理了三者之間交錯之發展。藉由縮小區域尺度到特定地方，本書得以重新評價宗教的變遷，改宗的過程，人物的生命轉變，宗教權威人士與宗教文本的傳承。
本書的作者們探問了以下問題：在特定時空之下宗教經驗如何被塑造？宗教實踐過程中某一特定地方所能起到的作用？宗教能量如何在地方被展現出來？地方如何生產宗教文本與敘事？宗教如何在不同地方發展出其特性？尤其是，個別文本或是經典在特定時空如何被傳承？而屬於地方的特殊性境遇又如何影響到宗教權威人士的更迭與替換。
This book explores how religion is and has been created, transmitted, embodied and changed in specific locations in late imperial, modern and contemporary Taiwan and China. Locating research not only on temples, mosques, churches, schools, tea houses, festival sites, burial grounds and shrines, but also cities, neighbourhoods, counties and districts, it explores the rich, and often overlooked, details that fill the lived experience of people doing religion. Seeking to focus on interactions between place, text and agency, this book aims to reflect on the layered and specific histories that develop as a consequence of this interplay. By reducing the scale of the studies to a specific locale, phenomena such as religious change, conversion practice, individual transformation and the transmission of texts, authority, and charisma, can be reappraised.
The contributors to this volume explore questions such as: How do the particular circumstances of time and place shape religious experience? What is specific to a location that influences the nature of religious practice there? What religious power is embodied in a place? How are narratives created around a location? What is characteristic of the religious world in a particular place? In particular, and in different ways, they ask how and why individual texts or sets of texts are transmitted in a particular place at a particular time, how such specific circumstances influence the transmission of authority within a group (or help to disperse that authority), and how authority and charisma are related to specific locations.
本書的作者們探問了以下問題：在特定時空之下宗教經驗如何被塑造？宗教實踐過程中某一特定地方所能起到的作用？宗教能量如何在地方被展現出來？地方如何生產宗教文本與敘事？宗教如何在不同地方發展出其特性？尤其是，個別文本或是經典在特定時空如何被傳承？而屬於地方的特殊性境遇又如何影響到宗教權威人士的更迭與替換。
This book explores how religion is and has been created, transmitted, embodied and changed in specific locations in late imperial, modern and contemporary Taiwan and China. Locating research not only on temples, mosques, churches, schools, tea houses, festival sites, burial grounds and shrines, but also cities, neighbourhoods, counties and districts, it explores the rich, and often overlooked, details that fill the lived experience of people doing religion. Seeking to focus on interactions between place, text and agency, this book aims to reflect on the layered and specific histories that develop as a consequence of this interplay. By reducing the scale of the studies to a specific locale, phenomena such as religious change, conversion practice, individual transformation and the transmission of texts, authority, and charisma, can be reappraised.
The contributors to this volume explore questions such as: How do the particular circumstances of time and place shape religious experience? What is specific to a location that influences the nature of religious practice there? What religious power is embodied in a place? How are narratives created around a location? What is characteristic of the religious world in a particular place? In particular, and in different ways, they ask how and why individual texts or sets of texts are transmitted in a particular place at a particular time, how such specific circumstances influence the transmission of authority within a group (or help to disperse that authority), and how authority and charisma are related to specific locations.