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Pray To the Heavenly Father: a Chinese New Religion in Malaysia

Pray To the Heavenly Father: a Chinese New Religion in Malaysia PRAY TO THE HEAVENLY FATHER: A CHINESE NEW RELIGION IN MALAYSIA S. E. ACKERMAN and RAYMOND L. M. LEE Unlike the flourishing literature on Japanese new religions, there have been very few published accounts of Chinese new religions. To date, Marjorie Topley has reported on the Great Way sect based on material she collected in Malaya and Singapore between 1954 and 1955.1 Welch and Yu have given an interesting descrip- tion of a sect known as The Holy Teaching of Heaven's Virtue which they had studied in Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1958 and 1978.2 The authors reported that both sects practise a syncretic religion that has been exported to overseas Chinese communities from mainland China.3 Suppression of these sects in China and their spread overseas have prompted Marjorie Topley, in the con- clusion of her 1963 article, to question their survival in the modern world. She speculated that they will gradually fade away as the older generation of sect leaders is replaced by younger men in- fluenced by modern Western ideals and values. However, her speculations have become obsolete in the light of some recent events in the Malaysian Chinese community which we will describe in this http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Numen Brill

Pray To the Heavenly Father: a Chinese New Religion in Malaysia

Lee, Raymond L.M.; Ackerman, S.E.; Lee, Raymond L.M.
Numen , Volume 29 (1): 62 – Jan 1, 1982
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© 1982 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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PRAY TO THE HEAVENLY FATHER: A CHINESE NEW RELIGION IN MALAYSIA S. E. ACKERMAN and RAYMOND L. M. LEE Unlike the flourishing literature on Japanese new religions, there have been very few published accounts of Chinese new religions. To date, Marjorie Topley has reported on the Great Way sect based on material she collected in Malaya and Singapore between 1954 and 1955.1 Welch and Yu have given an interesting descrip- tion of a sect known as The Holy Teaching of Heaven's Virtue which they had studied in Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1958 and 1978.2 The authors reported that both sects practise a syncretic religion that has been exported to overseas Chinese communities from mainland China.3 Suppression of these sects in China and their spread overseas have prompted Marjorie Topley, in the con- clusion of her 1963 article, to question their survival in the modern world. She speculated that they will gradually fade away as the older generation of sect leaders is replaced by younger men in- fluenced by modern Western ideals and values. However, her speculations have become obsolete in the light of some recent events in the Malaysian Chinese community which we will describe in this

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