1. David K. Jordan, University of California San Diego, USA.
2. Daniel L. Overmyer, University of British Columbia, Canada.
摘要
Anthropologist David Jordan and Daniel Overmyer, a historian of religions, present a joint analysis of the most important group of sectarian religious societies in contemporary Taiwan: those that engage in automatic writing seances, or worship by means of the phoenix writing implement.
目次
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix A PERSONAL INTRODUCTION / David K. Jordan xi A PERSONAL INTRODUCTION / Daniel L. Overmyer xvii 1 OVERVIEW AND CONCLUSIONS 3 2 THE HISTORICAL BACKGROUND: POPULAR RELIGIOUS SECTS IN CHINA AND TAIWAN 16 3 BACKGROUND OF THE Chi 36 4 CASE STUDY I: HISTORY OF THE HALL OF THE WONDROUS DHARMA 89 5 PAPERS OF THE HALL OF THE WONDROUS DHARMA 107 6 CASE STUDY II: THE COMPASSION SOCIETY, A BRIEF HISTORY 129 7 A COMPASSION SOCIETY LOCAL BRANCH HALLI: A POLITICAL FIELD 141 8 SOME COMPASSION SOCIETY BELIEVERS 182 9 CASE STUDY III: THE UNITY SECT (I–kuan Tao) 213 10 WRITINGS OF THE UNITY SECT 250 11 CONCLUSIONS 267 APPENDIX I THE APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION OF THE UNITY SECT 289 APPENDIX 2 RITUALS OF THE UNITY SECT 293 APPENDIX 3 WRITTEN MATERIALS OF THE COMPASSION SOCIETY 304 APPENDIX 4 SOME Fu-chi MAGAZINES PUBLISHED IN TAIWAN 307 APPENDIX 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE “COMPENDIUM OF PRECIOUS SCRIPTURES FROM THE SAINTS AND SAGES” 308 WORKS CITED 311 INDEX 323
