Divine Conversations: Voices on Popular Religion in Taiwan

This project draws on oral history to examine popular religion as a belief system that is inextricably diffused into daily life in Taiwan. A trilingual collection of interviews was undertaken in Taipei, capturing a sense of the breadth of how popular religion is experienced, while amplifying the voices of ordinary people – to enrich Taiwan’s history of the present. By considering popular religion as a lens through which culture is understood, we see an enduring reverence for family and tradition but also complex identities and contradictions in the ways people make sense of their religion and the world around them.