Cheng Chih-ming郑志明

Style & Daoist names

Cheng Chih-ming

Period

Contemporary

Dates

1957 — ?

Role

Scholar of ReligionProfessor, Fu Jen Catholic University

Birthplace

Taiwan

Life

Cheng Chih-ming is a Taiwanese scholar of religion, professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Fu Jen Catholic University, and former director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Culture at Nanhua University; he studies Daoism, popular religion, and new religious movements. He has written dozens of works, including Chinese Morality Books and Religion, Popular Religious Associations in Taiwan, A Study of the Ming-Dynasty Founder of the Sanyi Teaching, Chinese Society and Religion, Daoist Studies of Life and Death, and Religious Interpretations of Traditional Taiwanese Belief, covering Morality Books, spirit-writing, phoenix halls (luantang), popular sects, and Daoist life-cycle rites; he is one of the most prolific researchers of popular religion and Daoism in Taiwan. The above is publicly available academic information. He has also long been engaged in religious education and life education, and his works have influenced both the academic study of religion and religious practitioners in Taiwan.

Contributions & Influence

• Studied popular religious associations and phoenix halls (luantang) in Taiwan
• Studied Morality Books and the Sanyi Teaching
• Wrote Daoist Studies of Life and Death

Works

• Chinese Morality Books and Religion
• Popular Religious Associations in Taiwan
• A Study of the Ming-Dynasty Lord of the Sanyi Teaching
• Daoist Studies of Life and Death