Place, Alterity, and Narration in a Taiwanese Catholic Village (1st ed. 2020) (Asian Christianity in the Diaspora)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
2020

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ISBN-13:
9783030434618
Related ISBNs:
9783030434601
Publisher:
Springer International Publishing
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No
Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Social Studies, Sociology
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