“Religious Experience in Contemporary Taiwan and China helps social scientists and all religion scholars to rediscover the importance of religious experiences for multiple world religions. Combining a diverse array of survey items with thousands of candid narratives conducted in Taiwan, the authors provide a depth and breadth that can’t be matched by previous work. The nationally representative surveys for Taiwan and China offer a broad overview of how religion is experienced in the culture, how these experiences vary for each of the many religious (and even non-religious) groups, and how they vary between China and Taiwan.”
From the Preface by Roger Finke
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Preface (Roger Finke)
Introduction (Yen-zen Tsai)
Part I. Religions in Contemporary Taiwan and Analysis of the REST
1. A Profile of Religion in Contemporary Taiwan (Ping-yin Kuan)
2. Folk Religion and Religious Experience in Taiwan (Ming- hua Yu)
3. Taiwanese Buddhism and Religious Experiences (Yi-jia Tsai)
4. Taiwanese Daoism and Religious Experiences (Cheng-tian Kuo)
5. Religious Experiences of Taiwanese I-Kuan Tao and Buddho- Daoism (Shih-ju Huang)
6. Taiwanese Christianity and Religious Experiences (Hsing-kuang Chao)
7. The Religious Experiences of the Non-religious in Taiwan (Chen-yang Kao)
8. Confucian Culture in Contemporary Taiwan and Religious Experiences (Yen-zen Tsai)
9. Embodied Modes of Religious Experience in Taiwan (Yi-jia Tsai)
Part II. Thematic Exploration and Comparison between Taiwan and China
10. Religion, Religious Experience, and Education in Taiwan (David Voas)
11. Becoming Religious? The Relationship between Change in Religious Affiliation and Religiosity in Taiwan (Hsing-kuang Chao and Ping-yin Kuan)
12. Political Conservatism and Religious Experiences in Taiwan (Cheng-tian Kuo)
13. Gender and Religious Experience in Contemporary Taiwan and China (Xinzhong Yao)
Appendix I. Basic Information about REST Questionnaire
Appendix II. Questionnaire of Religious Experience Survey in Taiwan
Appendix III. Questionnaire of Religious Experience Survey in Taiwan—Chinese Original
Notes
Bibliography
Index
