The De teaching (
Chinese
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: 德教 ''Dejiao'', "teaching of virtue", the concept of
De), whose corporate name is the Church of Virtue (德教会 ''Déjiàohuì''), is a
sect rooted in
Taoism, that was founded in 1945 in
Chaozhou,
Guangdong. It is popular both in
China and amongst
expatriate Chinese populations.
[Formoso 2010.]
History
Originally a reaction of
Chaozhou shaman
Shamanism is a religious practice that involves a practitioner (shaman) interacting with what they believe to be a spirit world through altered states of consciousness, such as trance. The goal of this is usually to direct spirits or spiri ...
s to the
Japanese occupation of
Chaozhou, it blossomed in the wave of religious innovation after the
Second World War.
[Formoso 2007.] After the communist takeover in
Mainland China in 1949 the De faith spread to
Overseas Chinese communities in
Thailand,
Singapore and
Malaysia.
In recent decades, it has spread back to
China and started a worldwide expansion effort.
References
Bibliography
* Bernard Formoso.
De Jiao - A Religious Movement in Contemporary China and Overseas: Purple Qi from the East'. National University of Singapore, 2010.
* Bernard Formoso
''A Wishful Thinking Claim to Global Expansion? The Case of De Jiao (德教)''. Asia Research Institute Working Paper No. 96, Université Paris X Nanterre, Sept. 2007, 27 pp.
* Kazuo Yoshihara.
Dejiao: A Chinese Religion in Southeast Asia'. ''Japanese Journal of Religious Studies'', Vol. 15, No. 2/3, ''Folk Religion and Religious Organizations in Asia'' (Jun. - Sep., 1988), pp. 199–221. Published by: Nanzan University
* Chee Beng Tan.
The Development and Distribution of Dejiao Associations in Malaysia and Singapore, A Study on a Religious Organization'. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Occasional Paper n. 79. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 1985.
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