Globalization of Taiwan’s Religions

Programme

9h00-9h10: Opening Remarks 

Session chair: Fabienne Jagou

9h10-9h50 Stefan Kukowka
Globalising Faith: Taiwanese Pure Land Societies and the Negotiation of Religious and Cultural Identities

9h50-10h30 Gao Yu 
Facets of Transnational Buddhist Monastery in China: A Case Study of Monastery M

10h30-10h50 Coffee Break

10h50-11h30 Mou Sihao 
Religious identity and transnational development without localization: an analysis of the Bliss and Wisdom Group in Taiwan

11h30-12h10 Ji Zhe
Taiwanese Influences on Buddhist Dynamics in the PRC 

Lunch Time

Session Chair: Fiorella Allio

14h00-14h40 Yang Hung-Jen 
Four Types of Contemporary Yiguandao Transnationalism: A New Religious Movement from Taiwan to the World

14h40-15h20 Sébastien Billioud
Yiguandao's Transnational Expansion in Hong Kong and Paris

15h20-15h40 Coffee Break

15h40-16h20 Radu Bikir
Weixin Shengjiao and the Globalization of Chinese Spirituality: Religious Expansion and Academic Engagement 

16h20-17h00 Huang Ke-hsian and Tsai En-ya
Between the Two Giants across the Pacific Ocean: The Transnational Expansion of Taiwanese Pentecostal-charismatic Christianity

17h00-17h40 Pan Junliang 
Seeding the Faith: Taiwanese Missionaries and Chinese-speaking Churches in Europe

17h40-18h00 Final discussion

Le colloque se tiendra en langue anglaise.