Overview
- Shows how the narration of stories about a particular place attaches special agency to that place
- Uses ethnographic research from the Taiwanese village of Shuiwei
- Makes an original contribution to Asian studies using ethnographic and narrative methodologies
Part of the book series: Asian Christianity in the Diaspora (ACID)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Marco Lazzarotti received a PhD in Anthropology at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg. He is an affiliated member of the Institute of Ethnology at the University of Heidelberg and the Vice-Director of the Department of Ethnology of the IRIAE.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Place, Alterity, and Narration in a Taiwanese Catholic Village
Authors: Marco Lazzarotti
Series Title: Asian Christianity in the Diaspora
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43461-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43460-1Published: 18 July 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43463-2Published: 18 July 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43461-8Published: 17 July 2020
Series ISSN: 2945-6932
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6940
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 193
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Religion and Society, Cultural Anthropology, Christianity, Asian History