在20世紀,江蘇南部和臺灣地區同時被席卷到全球宗教變遷的大潮中,向國家世俗化、宗教化、理性化以及體驗化方向發展。因共享極為類似的文化傳統與地方實踐,兩地在佛教、道教、民間信仰等領域呈現出諸多相似的宗教景觀。與此同時,由于政治制度和宗教管控機制的巨大差異,兩地的宗教在逐漸演化中也出現了一些顯著的差異,如兩地在面對基督新教的全球擴張時采取了不同的應對策略,臺灣的宗教似乎比江蘇乃至大陸的任何地方更加本土化,等等。結合當地獨特的歷史語境,對江蘇和臺灣地區宗教的比較研究在某種程度上可以呈現出中國社會的現代變遷。

In the 20th century,southern Jiangsu and Taiwan were simultaneously swept into the tide of global religious changes,and developed in the direction of national secularization,religioniztion,rationalization and embodiment.Due to the sharing of very similar cultural traditions and local practices,the two places show a lot of similar religious landscape in the field of Buddhism,Daoism and local temple worship.At the same time,due to the great differences between the political system and the religious control mechanism,there have been some significant differences in the gradual evolution of the two religions,such as the different coping strategies in the face of global expansion of new Christianity and religion in Taiwan seems to be more localized than in Jiangsu,and even anywhere in mainland China.Combined with the unique local historical context,to some extent,the comparative study of religion in Jiangsu and Taiwan can show the modern changes in Chinese society.