God, Jesus and the Ancestors: An Ethnography of the Ancestors’ Rites in the Taiwanese Catholic Church

Marco Lazzarotti

doi:10.11588/hasp.1210

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Lazzarotti, Marco: God, Jesus and the Ancestors: An Ethnography of the Ancestors’ Rites in the Taiwanese Catholic Church, Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2023. https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1210

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https://doi.org/10.11588/hasp.1210

ISBN 978-3-948791-64-3 (PDF)

ISBN 978-3-948791-65-0 (Softcover)

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08/01/2023

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Marco Lazzarotti

God, Jesus and the Ancestors

An Ethnography of the Ancestors’ Rites in the Taiwanese Catholic Church

In this book the author describes the Ancestors Ceremonies as practiced in the Taiwanese Catholic Church. The author’s point is to demonstrate how the Chinese symbolic universe made a deep translation of the "new" symbolic system represented by the Catholic doctrine. At the same time the effort of the Catholic Church in order to adapt the Gospel message to the local situation built up a particular phenomenon that the author defined as cultural dialogue. It is this dialogic relationship the process that the author defines as Culture.

Marco Lazzarotti is an affiliated member and lecturer at the Institute of Anthropology of the University of Heidelberg. His research touches aspects linked to the effect of Catholicism on the tradition of ancestor rites in Taiwan, to inter-religious and inter-cultural dialogue and to the modernization of funeral rites in Taiwan.

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Cover

Title

Contents

v-vi

List of Figures

vii

Acknowledgments

ix-x

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Romanization and Chinese Characters

xiii

1 Introduction

1-13

2 Anthropologists and Ancestors

15-32

3 Catholicism in Taiwan, History and Anthropology

33-53

4 Fieldwork

55-67

5 Cultural Interpretations

69-80

6 Gods, Ghosts, and the Ancestors

81-113

7 Conclusions

115-120

Bibliography

121-127

Backcover

Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing