Place, Alterity, and Narration in a Taiwanese Catholic Village

1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-43460-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 193 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: Asian Christianity in the Diaspora

This book introduces a simple idea: when we tell a story, we tell a story and at the same time create the world where this story takes place. Narration creates environments, spaces and, in a certain sense, gives symbolic meanings and values to the identities by which people interact in their daily experiences. Set in the multicultural and multireligious Taiwanese environment, this book describes the interactions, and above all the narrations, linked to a Catholic village located in the Taiwanese countryside. Catholicism in Taiwan is a minor religion (around 2% of the population), and considered a foreign and heterodox religion, something different and "other" from the Taiwanese mainstream religious environment. It is this sense of alterity that creates the stories about this place and, as a consequence, creates this place and its special identity.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lazzarotti, Marco

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction.- 2. Locus.- 3. Topos.- 4. Epos.- 5. Genos.- 6. Ethos.- 7. Logos.- 8. Conclusions.

Über Autor(innen)

Marco Lazzarotti received a PhD in Anthropology at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. He is an affiliated member of the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Heidelberg and the Vice-Director of the Department of Ethnology of the IRIAE.