Wei-Ping Lin
Biographic Data
| ID | 308404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wei-Ping Lin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wei-Ping |
| FAMILY NAME | Lin |
| SIGNATURE | LIN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Taiwan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Mother Ghost Seeks a Human Son-in-Law: Ghost Shrines in Taiwan
This article re-examines the nature of ghosts in Taiwan from the perspective of materialization, as an aspect of material religion in general. I start by tracing the spatial separation between people and ghosts in the village of Wannian and then go on to discuss how people conceptualize ghosts in terms of the tripartite souls of the deceased, thus elucidating the way in which ghosts are considered not only as descendant-less, but also as displace…
Why Build a Temple? The Materialization of New Community Ideals in the Demilitarized Islands between China and Taiwan
Since the early twentieth century religion has been seen by the Chinese state and intellectuals as an obstacle to modernization and has thus been devalued. This article points out how this pejorative view of religion has latently persisted in contemporary Taiwan in the formulation of an important policy of community development. The author draws on ethnography from the Mazu Islands, a former frontier military base, to investigate the predicaments…
Materializing Magic Power: Chinese Popular Religion in Villages and Cities
Virtual Recentralization: Pilgrimage as Social Imaginary in the Demilitarized Islands between China and Taiwan
Drawing on ethnography from Mazu, a group of demilitarized islands between China and Taiwan, this article argues that contemporary pilgrimage is an imaginative work that generates hope and potentialities for the increasingly marginalized islanders. I explore the imaginative qualities of the rituals, qualities that I refer to collectively as 'virtual recentralization.' 'Recentralization' connotes the islanders' longing to regain their Cold War sta…
Local History through Popular Religion: Place, People and Their Narratives in Taiwan
This paper explores how popular religion can offer a different interpretation of history than the macro politico-economic perspective. It draws on ethnography from rural Taiwan to discuss how the local people have their own ways of understanding history. The author examines religious narratives, the revelations of spirit mediums, and changes in the governance of temples to show how the social histories of the region and the wider society are reco…
Conceptualizing Gods through Statues: A Study of Personification and Localization in Taiwan
When I first started fieldwork in Wannian, a village in southwestern Taiwan, I stayed in the village leader's house. At this early stage of the fieldwork, my relationship with the villagers was no more than polite and formal. One afternoon, I heard villagers talking in low and urgent voices about their temple's god statue. When I approached, they fell silent. No matter how I tried to question them about what had happened, they would tell me nothi…
Conceptualizing Gods through Statues: A Study of Personification and Localization in Taiwan
When I first started fieldwork in Wannian, a village in southwestern Taiwan, I stayed in the village leader's house. At this early stage of the fieldwork, my relationship with the villagers was no more than polite and formal. One afternoon, I heard villagers talking in low and urgent voices about their temple's god statue. When I approached, they fell silent. No matter how I tried to question them about what had happened, they would tell me nothi…
Why Build a Temple? The Materialization of New Community Ideals in the Demilitarized Islands between China and Taiwan
Since the early twentieth century religion has been seen by the Chinese state and intellectuals as an obstacle to modernization and has thus been devalued. This article points out how this pejorative view of religion has latently persisted in contemporary Taiwan in the formulation of an important policy of community development. The author draws on ethnography from the Mazu Islands, a former frontier military base, to investigate the predicaments…
Local History through Popular Religion: Place, People and Their Narratives in Taiwan
This paper explores how popular religion can offer a different interpretation of history than the macro politico-economic perspective. It draws on ethnography from rural Taiwan to discuss how the local people have their own ways of understanding history. The author examines religious narratives, the revelations of spirit mediums, and changes in the governance of temples to show how the social histories of the region and the wider society are reco…
Virtual Recentralization: Pilgrimage as Social Imaginary in the Demilitarized Islands between China and Taiwan
Drawing on ethnography from Mazu, a group of demilitarized islands between China and Taiwan, this article argues that contemporary pilgrimage is an imaginative work that generates hope and potentialities for the increasingly marginalized islanders. I explore the imaginative qualities of the rituals, qualities that I refer to collectively as 'virtual recentralization.' 'Recentralization' connotes the islanders' longing to regain their Cold War sta…
Mother Ghost Seeks a Human Son-in-Law: Ghost Shrines in Taiwan
This article re-examines the nature of ghosts in Taiwan from the perspective of materialization, as an aspect of material religion in general. I start by tracing the spatial separation between people and ghosts in the village of Wannian and then go on to discuss how people conceptualize ghosts in terms of the tripartite souls of the deceased, thus elucidating the way in which ghosts are considered not only as descendant-less, but also as displace…
Conceptualizing Gods through Statues: A Study of Personification and Localization in Taiwan
When I first started fieldwork in Wannian, a village in southwestern Taiwan, I stayed in the village leader's house. At this early stage of the fieldwork, my relationship with the villagers was no more than polite and formal. One afternoon, I heard villagers talking in low and urgent voices about their temple's god statue. When I approached, they fell silent. No matter how I tried to question them about what had happened, they would tell me nothi…
Local History through Popular Religion: Place, People and Their Narratives in Taiwan
This paper explores how popular religion can offer a different interpretation of history than the macro politico-economic perspective. It draws on ethnography from rural Taiwan to discuss how the local people have their own ways of understanding history. The author examines religious narratives, the revelations of spirit mediums, and changes in the governance of temples to show how the social histories of the region and the wider society are reco…
Virtual Recentralization: Pilgrimage as Social Imaginary in the Demilitarized Islands between China and Taiwan
Drawing on ethnography from Mazu, a group of demilitarized islands between China and Taiwan, this article argues that contemporary pilgrimage is an imaginative work that generates hope and potentialities for the increasingly marginalized islanders. I explore the imaginative qualities of the rituals, qualities that I refer to collectively as 'virtual recentralization.' 'Recentralization' connotes the islanders' longing to regain their Cold War sta…
Materializing Magic Power: Chinese Popular Religion in Villages and Cities
Why Build a Temple? The Materialization of New Community Ideals in the Demilitarized Islands between China and Taiwan
Since the early twentieth century religion has been seen by the Chinese state and intellectuals as an obstacle to modernization and has thus been devalued. This article points out how this pejorative view of religion has latently persisted in contemporary Taiwan in the formulation of an important policy of community development. The author draws on ethnography from the Mazu Islands, a former frontier military base, to investigate the predicaments…
Mother Ghost Seeks a Human Son-in-Law: Ghost Shrines in Taiwan
This article re-examines the nature of ghosts in Taiwan from the perspective of materialization, as an aspect of material religion in general. I start by tracing the spatial separation between people and ghosts in the village of Wannian and then go on to discuss how people conceptualize ghosts in terms of the tripartite souls of the deceased, thus elucidating the way in which ghosts are considered not only as descendant-less, but also as displace…
Sociology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Japanese History and Culture (3 works) · Religious Tourism and Spaces (3 works)