Goddess across the Taiwan
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The said " return of the religious, ". .. is not a simple return, for its globality and its figures (tele-techno-media-scientific, capitalistic and politico-economic) remain original and unprecedented. Jacques Derrida, " Faith and Knowledge " T his essay examines complex interactions among the nation-state, popular religion , media capitalism, and gendered territorialization as these are inflected across the Taiwan Strait. Relations across the strait have been fraught with political tension and military preparations over the question of whether Taiwan is part I thank the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation for funding this research; the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, for providing a research base in Taiwan; Dongsen Television News for allowing me to accompany their crew to Fujian; and Dong Zhenxiong of Zhenlan Temple and Zhang Xun for my interviews at the temple. I am grateful to Lin Meirong for inviting me to present this essay at the Inter-for their comments on the essay.
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