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Article: Paying homage to the ‘Heavenly Mother’: Cultural-geopolitics of the Mazu pilgrimage and its implications on rapprochement between China and Taiwan
Title | Paying homage to the ‘Heavenly Mother’: Cultural-geopolitics of the Mazu pilgrimage and its implications on rapprochement between China and Taiwan |
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Keywords | China Communitas Cultural-geopolitics Mazu pilgrimage Rapprochement Taiwan |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/geoforum |
Citation | Geoforum, 2017, v. 84, p. 32-41 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Much has been researched on tourism across (former) borders of conflict and on pilgrimage as a socio-cultural activity, but the relationship between the two remains poorly understood. Pilgrimage-tours carried out by Taiwanese devotees to the birthplace of Mazu (or Tianshang Shengmu – the Heavenly Mother) in Putian, China offer a significant platform to further our understanding of how religion can play a part in the rapprochement between China and Taiwan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper goes beyond the conventional state-level analysis to discuss interactions and encounters forged at the levels of the temple organisations and the individual. It utilises Victor Turner’s concept of ‘communitas’ to understand how spiritual spaces are being performed through the pilgrimage rather than already existing before the pilgrimage. Importantly, the Mazu pilgrimage-tour is conceptualised not as a tourism product, but as both a social activity and a socialising one, producing opportunities for different forms of interactions between the Chinese and Taiwanese devotees. These ‘interactions along the side’ as opposed to state-level diplomatic exchanges offer insights into the ‘more-than-state’ and ‘more-than-human’ relationships that bind/divide devotees on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/243228 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 3.4 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.338 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Zhang, JJ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-08-25T02:51:55Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-08-25T02:51:55Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Geoforum, 2017, v. 84, p. 32-41 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0016-7185 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/243228 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Much has been researched on tourism across (former) borders of conflict and on pilgrimage as a socio-cultural activity, but the relationship between the two remains poorly understood. Pilgrimage-tours carried out by Taiwanese devotees to the birthplace of Mazu (or Tianshang Shengmu – the Heavenly Mother) in Putian, China offer a significant platform to further our understanding of how religion can play a part in the rapprochement between China and Taiwan. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this paper goes beyond the conventional state-level analysis to discuss interactions and encounters forged at the levels of the temple organisations and the individual. It utilises Victor Turner’s concept of ‘communitas’ to understand how spiritual spaces are being performed through the pilgrimage rather than already existing before the pilgrimage. Importantly, the Mazu pilgrimage-tour is conceptualised not as a tourism product, but as both a social activity and a socialising one, producing opportunities for different forms of interactions between the Chinese and Taiwanese devotees. These ‘interactions along the side’ as opposed to state-level diplomatic exchanges offer insights into the ‘more-than-state’ and ‘more-than-human’ relationships that bind/divide devotees on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Pergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/geoforum | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Geoforum | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | Communitas | - |
dc.subject | Cultural-geopolitics | - |
dc.subject | Mazu pilgrimage | - |
dc.subject | Rapprochement | - |
dc.subject | Taiwan | - |
dc.title | Paying homage to the ‘Heavenly Mother’: Cultural-geopolitics of the Mazu pilgrimage and its implications on rapprochement between China and Taiwan | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Zhang, JJ: j.j.zhang@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Zhang, JJ=rp01968 | - |
dc.description.nature | postprint | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.05.012 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85020301379 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 274469 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 84 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 32 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 41 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000408287000004 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0016-7185 | - |