Nativism, ethnic revival, and the reappearance of indigenous religions in the ROC: the use of the internet in the construction of Taiwanese identities

Michael Rudolph’s article Nativism, Ethnic Revival, and the Reappearance of Indigenous Religions in the ROC: The Use of the Internet in the Construction of Taiwanese Identities deals with rituals presented on Taiwanese Websites in the context of identity construction. Since the mid-nineties, long ab...

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主要作者: Rudolph, Michael (Author)
格式: 电子 文件
语言:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
出版: [2006]
In: Online - Heidelberg journal of religions on the internet
Year: 2006, 卷: 2, Pages: 41-53
Further subjects:B Taiwan
B 互联网
B 宗教
B 仪式
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总结:Michael Rudolph’s article Nativism, Ethnic Revival, and the Reappearance of Indigenous Religions in the ROC: The Use of the Internet in the Construction of Taiwanese Identities deals with rituals presented on Taiwanese Websites in the context of identity construction. Since the mid-nineties, long abandoned and very un-Chinese ritual practices suddenly seemed to become popular again in China’s runaway-province Taiwan: in spite of the fact that most of the island’s 2% of indigenous population had been Christianized for half a century, intellectual elites of different aboriginal groups now referred to ancestor-gods, tattooing and even headhunting again as essential parts of their own traditional repertoire, often making abundant use of the Internet in order to propagate these convictions to a broader Chinese speaking public. This contribution not only scrutinises the political context that made such a development possible, but also assesses this practice in terms of the identity construction of the specific ethnic groups.
ISSN:1861-5813
Contains:Enthalten in: Online - Heidelberg journal of religions on the internet
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.11588/rel.2006.1.375