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In the first introductory chapter, it is explained how, following the Italian anthropologist Carlo Tullio Altan, the data collected by the author are organized into five categories, which are named Topos, Epos, Genos, Ethos, and Logos. These five categories provide the book’s core structure by serving as chapter headings and foci.
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I will refer to the Christian communities of Shuiwei by using the specific terms Catholic 天主教 (Tiānzhǔjiào) and Presbyterian 長老會 (Zhǎnglǎohuì). When I use the term Christian 基督徒 (Jı̄dūtú), I will refer to both Churches.
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Hakka people, whose Chinese name 客家人 Kèjiā rén literally means “guest people,” are a subgroup of the 漢 Hàn Chinese that originated in Northern China. In a series of migrations, the Hakkas moved and settled in their present areas in Southern China, and from there, substantial numbers migrated overseas to various countries throughout the world.
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Alterity is considered as the quality or state of being radically alien to the conscious self or a particular cultural orientation. Merrian-Webster.com 2017, Alterity.
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Please refer to Lazzarotti (2008).
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In this book, following the indication of Professor Philip Clart (2007), I will use the term “Popular Religion” instead of the term “Chinese folk religion. ”
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In the Chinese tradition, a lineage is an organized group of descendants of a single, specific ancestor . The ancestor is referred to as an “apical” ancestor because he is at the “apex” of the genealogy by which the lineage membership is determined, and the descent links to this person are known (or written in a genealogy where they can be looked up). A clan is a property holding group made up of descendants of an apical ancestor , but the details of the descent lines from that ancestor are unknown. In some cases the ancestor is clearly mythical, and in some societies, the apical ancestor may even be non-human. Please refer to David K. Jordan (2006).
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Lazzarotti, M. (2020). Introduction. In: Place, Alterity, and Narration in a Taiwanese Catholic Village. Asian Christianity in the Diaspora. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43461-8_1
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