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be followed. In other words, for the average Chinese, religion is a socially important value system to make for a smooth functioning of human relationships as much as it is a method to obtain divine favours to increase the effectiveness of human efforts toward the realization of a happy life.
END-NOTES
1 This paper was first presented at the joint panel of the CASA and the CSSR on Chinese Religion at the Conference of the Learned Societies in Saskatoon, May 1979.
2 Compare the five-volume work written by J. J M de Groot: The Religions System of the China; although it is mainly based on his held work done in Amoy, it is considered to be a standard work on Chinese religion in general.
See P. C. Baity, Religion in a Chinese Town (Asian Folklore and Social Life Monographs, no. 64), Taipei: The Orient Cultural Service, 1975. (See my review article pp. of this issue).
4 See various ceremonial and memorial booklets issued by the Municipal Government of Taipei, Tainan and Taichung, e.g., Tach'eng chih-sheng hsien-shih K'ung-tzu shih-tsun chien-shuo, IKAFLTE* My (or) M) » Taipei, 1974, Ta-ch'eng chih-sheng hsien-shih K'ung-tzu shih- 1sun chien-chich 大成至聖先師孔子釋荪蛸(or)簡說 (Memorial Service for Confucius on his Birthday), Taichung, 1977,
5 See Y. Raguin, S.J., "Buddhism in Taiwan", pp. 179-185 in H. Dumoulin, ed. Buddhism in the Modern World, London, New York: Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1976.
• Questions and Answers about the Republic of China (Taipei: Chung- hua Information Service, 1978), p. 17.
W. L. Grichting, The Value System in Taiwan 1970: A Preliminary Report. Taipei, 1971. (Quoted by Y. Raguin).
* See for example Taiwan Tzu-miao chúlan-chi, &*+** Ed. by Wang I-han, Taichung Luan-yu Journal Society, 1977. Lists of local temples issued by municipal governments follow the same pattern. How- ever, the more scholarly but antiquated list published in the Taiwan Gazetteer and adopted by Lin Heng-tao divides the temples into three main groups: Taoist, Buddhist, folk-religion (t'ung-su), i See Lin Heng-tao, Talwan Szu-miao Ta-ch'üan, 4★★★4 Taipei: Ch'ing-wen Publishing Company, 1974.
* See M. Saso "The Taoist Tradition in Taiwan”, China Quarterly No. 41 (1970), 83-102.
M. Saso, "Red-Head and Black-Head: the Classification of the Taoists of Taiwan according to the Documents of the 61st Heavenly Master,” Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica (Taipei), 30 (1970).
* See H. Welch, "The Chang T'ien-shih and Taoism in China”, Journal of the Oriental Society 4 (1957-58), 188-212.
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be followed. In other words, for the average Chinese, religion is a socially important value system to make for a smooth functioning of human relationships as much as it is a method to obtain divine favours to increase the effectiveness of human efforts toward the realization of a happy life.
END-NOTES
1 This paper was first presented at the joint panel of the CASA and the CSSR on Chinese Religion at the Conference of the Learned Societies in Saskatoon, May 1979.
2 Compare the five-volume work written by J. J M de Groot: The Religions System of the China; although it is mainly based on his held work done in Amoy, it is considered to be a standard work on Chinese religion in general.
See P. C. Baity, Religion in a Chinese Town (Asian Folklore and Social Life Monographs, no. 64), Taipei: The Orient Cultural Service, 1975. (See my review article pp. of this issue).
4 See various ceremonial and memorial booklets issued by the Municipal Government of Taipei, Tainan and Taichung, e.g., Tach'eng chih-sheng hsien-shih K'ung-tzu shih-tsun chien-shuo, IKAFLTE* My (or) M) » Taipei, 1974, Ta-ch'eng chih-sheng hsien-shih K'ung-tzu shih- 1sun chien-chich 大成至聖先師孔子釋荪蛸(or)簡說 (Memorial Service for Confucius on his Birthday), Taichung, 1977,
5 See Y. Raguin, S.J., "Buddhism in Taiwan", pp. 179-185 in H. Dumoulin, ed. Buddhism in the Modern World, London, New York: Collier Macmillan Publishers, 1976.
• Questions and Answers about the Republic of China (Taipei: Chung- hua Information Service, 1978), p. 17.
W. L. Grichting, The Value System in Taiwan 1970: A Preliminary Report. Taipei, 1971. (Quoted by Y. Raguin).
* See for example Taiwan Tzu-miao chúlan-chi, &*+** Ed. by Wang I-han, Taichung Luan-yu Journal Society, 1977. Lists of local temples issued by municipal governments follow the same pattern. How- ever, the more scholarly but antiquated list published in the Taiwan Gazetteer and adopted by Lin Heng-tao divides the temples into three main groups: Taoist, Buddhist, folk-religion (t'ung-su), i See Lin Heng-tao, Talwan Szu-miao Ta-ch'üan, 4★★★4 Taipei: Ch'ing-wen Publishing Company, 1974.
* See M. Saso "The Taoist Tradition in Taiwan”, China Quarterly No. 41 (1970), 83-102.
M. Saso, "Red-Head and Black-Head: the Classification of the Taoists of Taiwan according to the Documents of the 61st Heavenly Master,” Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica (Taipei), 30 (1970).
* See H. Welch, "The Chang T'ien-shih and Taoism in China”, Journal of the Oriental Society 4 (1957-58), 188-212.
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