globalization and chinese religion
Chinese religions are now practiced throughout the world. Carried by Chinese migrants, they have for centuries served to establish the ethnic identity of communities throughout the Chinese diaspora. In more recent years, however, Chinese religions have been disseminated far beyond the boundaries of Chinese ethnic communities, as increasing numbers of non-Chinese adopt Chinese spiritual practices and adapt them to their own culture. The confluence of Asian and Western religious cultures thus swirls in dynamic feedback loops. Chinese religions are both contributors to and recipients of a global search for transcendence.
religion and chinese ethnicity in the world's chinatowns
If you consult the website www.chinatownology.com, a website about Chinatowns around the world, you will see that a large part of the website contents are devoted to Chinese temples, festivals and deities, showing the centrality of religious culture to overseas Chinese ethnic identity.
A wealth of information and photographs of Chinese shrines and temples in Northwest USA can be found here. This blog contains data and images on the earliest Chinese temples in Santa Cruz, California. And here, you can find a directory with links to Daoist temples in California.
This blog has some good pictures of Chinatown in Bangkok and Singapore, including some temples.
Another blog on Chinatown in New York: On the trail of Chinatown's hidden gods: "Shopkeepers in Manhattan’s Chinatown still tend shrines to their Buddhist [sic] gods, who guard the cash and the goods, and the owner’s health and wealth. Look closely, and you’ll see them everywhere."
This photojournalistic essay illustrates the Chinese New Year parade in New York, showing how Chinese and Western elements have been combined to weave the Chinese festival into the local, multicultural fabric of New York society.
Photo: Mazu Temple in Yokohama Chinatown. Credit: kanegen / Foter.com / CC BY
A wealth of information and photographs of Chinese shrines and temples in Northwest USA can be found here. This blog contains data and images on the earliest Chinese temples in Santa Cruz, California. And here, you can find a directory with links to Daoist temples in California.
This blog has some good pictures of Chinatown in Bangkok and Singapore, including some temples.
Another blog on Chinatown in New York: On the trail of Chinatown's hidden gods: "Shopkeepers in Manhattan’s Chinatown still tend shrines to their Buddhist [sic] gods, who guard the cash and the goods, and the owner’s health and wealth. Look closely, and you’ll see them everywhere."
This photojournalistic essay illustrates the Chinese New Year parade in New York, showing how Chinese and Western elements have been combined to weave the Chinese festival into the local, multicultural fabric of New York society.
Photo: Mazu Temple in Yokohama Chinatown. Credit: kanegen / Foter.com / CC BY
christianity among chinese overseas
On Chinese churches in North America: www.chinesechurches.org
On the depiction of Mary in a manner similar to the iconography of Guanyin, see here.
On the depiction of Mary in a manner similar to the iconography of Guanyin, see here.
CHINA AS AN EXPORTER OF RELIGION
THE SPREAD OF CHINESE RELIGION AMONG NON-CHINESE
Deng Ming-dao: dengmingdao.com