| Description
| Popular religion, the traditional belief culture of Han people in Taiwan, merges its doctrine, ritual and organization into the worldly social life.The belief system manifests itself specifically in everyday life and custom, such as ancestor worship, spirit belief,seasonal celebration and festival, life rite, belief concepts, religious antique and relics and ritual, and so on.Except the popular religion, new religions bloom up by social changes. Both the transformation in many traditional religions and the pervasion of minority spiritual communities resulted from the transmission of the bourgeois culture enriches the Taiwanese popular religions with multiple aspects of modernity.Based on the historical origin and phenomena of the belief practice and concepts above, the curriculum introduces the development, contents and cultural significance of popular religions and new religions in Taiwan in order to facilitate students' understanding of these religions' multifaceted character and d
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