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Author Lazzarotti, Marco

Title Place, alterity, and narration in a Taiwanese catholic village / Marco Lazzarotti
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Asian Christianity in the diaspora
Asian Christianity in the diaspora.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Locus -- 3. Topos -- 4. Epos -- 5. Genos -- 6. Ethos -- 7. Logos -- 8. Conclusions
Summary This book introduces a simple idea: when we tell a story, we tell a story and at the same time create the world where this story takes place. Narration creates environments, spaces and, in a certain sense, gives symbolic meanings and values to the identities by which people interact in their daily experiences. Set in the multicultural and multireligious Taiwanese environment, this book describes the interactions, and above all the narrations, linked to a Catholic village located in the Taiwanese countryside. Catholicism in Taiwan is a minor religion (around 2% of the population), and considered a foreign and heterodox religion, something different and "other" from the Taiwanese mainstream religious environment. It is this sense of alterity that creates the stories about this place and, as a consequence, creates this place and its special identity
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Subject Catholic Church -- Taiwan -- Yunlin County -- History -- 20th century
Catholic Church -- Taiwan -- Yunlin County -- History -- 21st century
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject Catholics -- Taiwan -- Yunlin County
Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.
Christianity.
Asian history.
Religious issues & debates.
Social Science -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Religion -- Christianity -- General.
History -- Asia -- General.
Social Science -- Sociology of Religion.
Catholics
SUBJECT Yunlin County (Taiwan) -- Church history -- 20th century
Yunlin County (Taiwan) -- Church history -- 21st century
Subject Taiwan -- Yunlin County
Genre/Form Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030434618
3030434613