Religious Beliefs in ‘Aboriginal Taiwan’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13118699 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Joby (0000-0001-9889-7781, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 118-152 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Taiwan Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2468-8800 • E-ISSN: 2468-8797 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/24688800-20231270 |
| OpenAlex | W4379802477 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 22 |
There are various approaches to building a picture of the ‘spiritual’ entities in which indigenous Formosans believed in ‘Aboriginal Taiwan’. This article does so by studying what sources written in the seventeenth century tell us about them. One source was written by a Chinese observer, and others by two groups of Europeans: Dutch East India Company employees and Spanish missionaries. Thus, one methodological issue is that these authors looked at Formosan belief systems through the different lenses of their own religious experience and tried to fit the Formosan belief systems into their own ‘existing knowledge grids’. A related problem is that the authors’ usage of terms may differ and indeed does differ from modern usage in the anthropology of religion. Despite these methodological issues, the article argues that these sources indicate that different Formosan tribes believed in different spiritual entities and were therefore marked by their heterogeneity
Belief system · Epistemology · Ethnology · Indigenous · Religious belief · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Philosophy · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies · Ecology
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Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond
A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion
Studies in Chinese Society
A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy
Religion in Chinese Society
Marriage and Mandatory Abortion among the 17th-Century Siraya
A visit to the Past
How Taiwan became Chinese. Dutch, Spanish and Han colonization in the seventeenth century
Vernacular religion and nature
Sociological Analysis
Historiography of the Other
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |