Global Dao: The Making of Transnational Yiguandao

This paper seeks to explore how the religious movement Yiguandao (“Way of Pervading Unity”) is building a transnational and transcultural network through its global missionary work. Building on ethnographic data from fieldwork conducted in Taiwan, Austria, South Africa, the US, and Japan in 2016-201...

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Main Author: Broy, Nikolas 1980- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2020]
In: Annual review of the sociology of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 11, Pages: 174-193
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Yiguan Dao / Transnationaization / History 1940-2020
B Vienna / Yiguan Dao
IxTheo Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
AZ New religious movements
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
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Summary:This paper seeks to explore how the religious movement Yiguandao (“Way of Pervading Unity”) is building a transnational and transcultural network through its global missionary work. Building on ethnographic data from fieldwork conducted in Taiwan, Austria, South Africa, the US, and Japan in 2016-2018 as well as on published Yiguandao materials and online resources, this contribution seeks to explore the global spread of Yiguandao from three different angles: first, by exploring the overall development of Yiguandao’s global proselytization from the mid-1940s to the present; second, by taking a micro look at the history and activities of a particular congregation belonging to Andong division and located in Vienna, Austria; and third, by analyzing six patterns of transnational development and transculturation.
Contains:Enthalten in: Annual review of the sociology of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/9789004443327_011