中研院民族所

Thanks to the establishment of world heritage system and the rise of global tourism, the discourse of heritage and religion have witnessed revival in recent decades. In East Asian countries, both heritage and religion revived with the economic reform and have been used by the government as strategies to maintain social stability; and, both have become “commodities” people consume when they confront with identity crisis, and anxiety of loss due to the rapid transition of urban or rural environment in recent years.

While religious heritage occupied one fifth world heritage sites, yet very little research examines the interrelationship between the two. In this conference, we seek to look at: How do heritage sites become places of pilgrimage to people who ascribe deep meaning to them? How do religious communities negotiate and contest their religious identity when their temples or churches become authorized heritage sites with new regulations on conservation and management? How were local religious practitioners in minority areas revitalized as “intangible heritage inheritors” in the context of cultural commercialization? Theoretical reflections include the relationship between heritage and religious practices and the dissonances between religious and secular claims on heritage sites.

       近年各國競相競爭向聯合國教科文組織登記文化遺產項目，作為國家競爭力表現，也作為保存文化遺產的動力來源。宗教、儀式與信仰與社群的文化傳承發展息息相關，地方知識透過有形的文化資產如：建築、遺跡、神聖物件、經典、繪畫、詩歌等或無形的文化資產如：口述傳統、儀式、信仰、祭典等不同面貌再現。其中與宗教相關的有形/無形文化遺產佔目前世界文化遺產總數的五分之一。無論是天主教，伊斯蘭教，佛教，道教都有許多項目成功地登錄為世界級文化遺產項目。正面效果是讓宗教與信仰藉以延續流傳，負面效果是觀光發展、傳統再造、儀式再現所帶來的破壞與扭曲，文化遺產的指定、登錄亦使得國家權力以保護為名凌駕地方傳統，聯合國代表的西方價值超越以地方知識開展的傳統宗教信仰與倫理。

      本研討會企圖檢討宗教與有形/無形文化遺產之間的各種關係，特別是宗教文化資產產化過程所帶來的各種影響：例如不同形式的宗教文化的復甦(revitalization)、遺產化(heritagization)、商業化(commodification)，與當代的再創造(invention)，進一步思考遺產論述如何造成宗教生活實踐的質變，以及宗教遺產化過程中，如何被建制化納入國家體系，其背後所呈現不同利益關係者的互動、競奪。最終希望反思多元文化宗教價值體系如何面對今日越來越平面化單一化全球化的價值觀?

      本研討會邀請的學者皆為國際上長期致力於亞太地區宗教研究、文化遺產與旅遊觀光議題的學者，希望透過本國際研討會之舉辦搭建一平台檢視亞太地區的宗教與文化遺產的關係，並透過跨文化的對話，瞭解不同地方社群傳統宗教生活之實踐如何回應當代全球性的文化遺產論述。

8^th-9^th January 2018, Mon.-Tue.

Room 2319, 3F, the New Wing, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica

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Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Tao, Hsiao Hsuan
02-2652-3324, hsiaotao@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Monday 8^th January 2018

Tuesday 9^th January 2018

• Chan, Selina Ching／Professor and Associate Director, Contemporary China Research Center, Hong Kong Shue Yan University
• Chang, Cheng-Heng／Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University
• Chang, Hsun／Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
• Feuchtwang, Stephan／Emeritus Professor, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics
• Graburn, Nelson／Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Department, University of California, Berkeley
• Holm, David／Professor, National Chengchi University
• Ishimura, Tomo／Head, Audio-Visual Documentation Section, Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage, National Research Institute for Cultural Properties, Tokyo 
• Kim, Kwang Ok／Emeritus Professor, Department of Anthropology, Seoul National University
• Liu, Tik-sang／Associate Professor, Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Oakes, Timothy／Professor and Director, Centre for Asia Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
• Penny, Benjamin／Director, Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University
• Rowlands, Michael／Emeritus Professor, Department of Anthropology, University College London
• Wang, Shu-Li／Assistant Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
• Zhu, Yujie／Lecturer, Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies, Australian National University