The Catholic Church in Taiwan: Problems and Prospects [Hardcover]

This book provides a key analysis of the development of the Catholic Church in Taiwan, and considers the challenges it faces in contemporary times. It examines how the 1949 revolution in Mainland China brought a great number of Chinese intellectuals to Taiwan and provided the Taiwan Catholic Church with valuable human asset for theological and liturgical indigenization. This volume considers different aspects of the development of the Taiwan Catholic Church in the context of indigenization, and examines how the multi-faceted aspects of Catholicism in the Taiwan Catholic Church are revealed through history, philosophy, social science, linguistics, music and literature.?

1. The Introduction
   
2. Indigenization Efforts of the Catholic Church in Taiwan
3. The Internal Development of the Taiwan Catholic Church: 1950s1960s
4. The Taiwan Catholic Church and the Indigenization Movement
5. Inculturation of Spirituality: Taiwan Experience
6. The Inculturation of Liturgical Languages: Taiwanese and Mandarin Chinese
7. Chinese Sacred Music in Taiwan After Vatican II: Historical Review and Outcomes
8. The Implementation of Catholic SocialTeaching in Taiwan
9. Wang Wen-hsings Religious Dimension: A Catholic Perspective
10. Spirituality in the Fiction of Chang Hsiu-ya: Through the Lens of Vatican II
11. After Words
    

Dr Francis H.K. So is Chair Professor of English at Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan and is Councilor of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies. ?He has published in Chinese and co-edited A Guide to Major Texts in English Literature (2007), Identity and Politics: Early Modern Culture (2005) and Emotions in Literature (2010). Most recently he edited Perceiving Power in Early Modern Eurl³Q