%0 Journal Article %J Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet %D 2006 %T Ethnic Revival, and the Reappearance of Indigenous Religions in the ROC : the Use of the Internet in the Construction of Taiwanese Identities %A Michael Rudolph %K aboriginal groups %K Digital Religion %K Ethnic %K identity %K Indigenous Religions %K internet %K online communication %K religion online %K Ritual %K Taiwan %X Michael Rudolph’s article Nativism, Ethnic Revival, and the Reappearance of Indigenous Religions in the ROC: The Use of the Internet in the Construction of Taiwanese Identities deals with rituals presented on Taiwanese Websites in the context of identity construction. Since the mid-nineties, long abandoned and very un-Chinese ritual practices suddenly seemed to become popular again in China’s runaway-province Taiwan: in spite of the fact that most of the island’s 2% of indigenous population had been Christianized for half a century, intellectual elites of different aboriginal groups now referred to ancestor-gods, tattooing and even headhunting again as essential parts of their own traditional repertoire, often making abundant use of the Internet in order to propagate these convictions to a broader Chinese speaking public. This contribution not only scrutinises the political context that made such a development possible, but also assesses this practice in terms of the identity construction of the specific ethnic groups. %B Online – Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet %V 02.1 %G eng %U http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/ojs/index.php/religions/article/view/375/351 %N Special Issue on Rituals on the Internet %& 41