Abstract

Religious affiliation, ethnicity and cultural identity are said to be usually interconnected in many societies around the world and this thesis is meant to tackle this issue in Taiwanese society. In order to find out the patterns of inter-relatedness among these three, this study uses data collected by the research project “Taiwan Social Change Survey” 2009. One-way ANOVA as well as multiple regression analysis are used for different purposes. The result shows that new religion believers, Buddhists as well as atheists tend to identify themselves more with Chinese culture in comparison with others, while the Taoists identify the strongest with Taiwanese Culture; Christians have no obvious cultural identity inclination. However, all religious believers show no significant differences in terms of global cultural identification. From the perspective of ethnicity, Minlanese identify themselves with Taiwanese and global culture more, while Mainlanders and Hakkian tend to identify themselves more with Chinese culture.