Yiguan Dao in Taiwan
Subtitle: Religious Economy and Chinese Sects
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: March 28, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780739117194
Subjects: Eastern - General; Religion / Eastern; General; Religion; Religion - World Religions
Description: "The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan is the first English-language scholarly study exclusively focusing on Yiguan Dao. Utilizing fieldwork conducted in 2002 in Taiwan, Yunfeng Lu provides a history of Yiguan Dao in mainland China and focuses on the sect's evolution in Taiwan in the past few decades. Lu probes the operation of Yiguan Dao under suppression over the past twenty years, and examines the relationship between Yiguan Dao and its rivals in Taiwan's religious market. The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan also develops the religious economy model by extending it to Chinese societies. It is essential reading for anyone interested in religion and contemporary Chinese society."--Jacket.