Format:  DVD: Institutional Use

Director:  Lee, Jonathan H.X.     

Producer: East Meets West Educational Film Prod.; 2008
Languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese, and English, with English Subtitles.

Condition: New

Description: This film explores the emerging transnational Empress of Heaven community in San Francisco's Chinatown among new immigrant Taiwanese-Americans. Tianhou, the Empress of Heaven, known as Mazu (Mother Ancestor) in Taiwan, is represented as Meiguo Mazu (American Mazu) and resides at the Ma-tsu Temple USA in San Francisco. Both rituals authenticate religious, ethnic, cultural, community, and national identities, and reflect the multiple identities found within the Taiwanese-American community.

Discussion topics: transnational/diaspora religion, pilgrimage, Chinese popular religion, gender and religion, Chinese-American religion, American civil society, sacred and secular, tourism, popular/vernacular religion, sacred space, rituals, identity formation, material and visual religion, and Chinese-American culture work.

討論主題: 跨國/移居宗教、朝聖、性別與宗教、華裔美國人宗教、美國民間社會、神聖與世俗、旅遊、民間宗教/本地宗教/方言宗教、神聖的空間、儀式、身份認同的形成、物質宗教與視覺宗教、及華裔美國人的文化工作。

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