Modes of Belief in Chinese Folk Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2514432 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Harrell (0000-0002-6298-6712, corresponding author), Stevan Harrell |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 55 |
| Publication date | 1977-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1386205 |
| OpenAlex | W2321884951 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 2 |
Interviews with 66 residents of a Taiwanese village about their folk religion revealed that there is no simple division between believers and unbelievers, but rather that people's belief can be classified into four types, or modes: Intellectual belief, which tries to make sense out of reality; true belief, which accepts everything with total credulity; practical belief, which evaluates religious tenets on basis of evidence; and non-belief, which declares folk religion irrelevant. These findings bear on anthropological question of the new intellectualism, suggesting that both intellectualist position, which declares that people believe religious tenets literally, and anti-intellectualist position, which declares that religion is purely a metaphor for something else, are overly simple in that they do not consider individual variations
Belief system · Epistemology · Folk religion · Religious belief · Sociology · Anthropology · Chinese history and philosophy · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,32 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |