[摘要]

Abstract

This essay describes in the process of community construction, how a community

within religious sphere takes its own religion as a start point to reconstruct

its collective identification. In qualitative manner, this article uses

various social movement theories as its context trying to comprehend every

possibility and limitation that may happen in the process of constructing the

collective identification in a community. Since 1980, Taiwan society underwent

great political and social transformations; a suppressed social force is

gradually awakening, and starts to demand a new progression by its own force.

And in the process of constructing community identification, we can see very

obviously the existence of this kind of social force. Therefore, in this

research, we take Er-chieh community as a case to study what collective

identification the community reflects in this process, and the possible

problems it may encounter.

Er-chieh is a traditional rural village, the community’s range is around the

religious sphere of Wan Kung temple. Wang Kung temple is the religious and

living center of the whole community. As not every resident is the disciple of

Wang Kung temple, when the rebuilding plan of Wang Kung temple was addressed,

the rebuilding plan has expanded to entire community reconstructing plan to

bring the participation of those who are not disciples. In this process, Er-

chieh community first began from organization as its strategy. The community

founded a committee which is authoritative enough to represent the whole

community, and invited respected senior citizens and significant local people

for participation. And various kind of religious ceremonies of Wang Kung

temple transformed the community’s developing characteristic. To show Er-

chieh community’s unique cultural traditions, community’s common consensus

and collective identification, the community is willing to achieve the goal of

reconstructing community consciousness. This process of community

reconstruction also responds to the social movement theories of new social

movement theories, resource mobilization theory and city social movement, as

they emphasize the identification as the mobilizing strategy, and a bottom top

way to gradually alter the living style and surrounding environment. And

because of this, in the process of constructing Er-chieh community’s

identification, we faced many problems. Not only within the organization but

also in the mobilization strategy, we had urgent problems needed to resolve.

We took it as the comparison with the limitations that Taiwan community may

encounter, and offer the possible improving ways.