CRISIS OF FAMILY REALITIES IN TAIWAN: CHIARA LUBICH’S CONCEPT OF ‘UNITY’ AS THE POSSIBLE CORE PATH OF RECONCILIATION
From the Past to the Present, Taiwan, as part of the Chinese cultural circle, has experienced distinct changes in family reality. Politics, economy, migration, and globalization have been or are the crucial factors influencing families. Polygamy, extended family, nuclear family, transnational family...
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| description | From the Past to the Present, Taiwan, as part of the Chinese cultural circle, has experienced distinct changes in family reality. Politics, economy, migration, and globalization have been or are the crucial factors influencing families. Polygamy, extended family, nuclear family, transnational family, same-sex marriage and diversified family construct the contexts of families in Taiwan. These multi-family forms seem to ingratiate themselves with the popular concept of ‘diversity’, which has been articulated since the 21st century. Many people think that ‘diversity’ could eliminate conflicts, because not any part will be ignored; ‘diversity’ shows tolerance and social progress. In fact, there are at the same time, increasing conflicts and problems occurring because of diversity. What would be the potential causes of problems? And how could these problems and conflicts in the families be dealt with? The core solutions seem not easy to find. Since the 1960s, Chiara Lubich’s concepts: ‘unity’, ‘mutual love’, and ‘the model of the new family’ have spread into Taiwan. Her concepts have influenced many families to live in a new way. In this paper, several historical and current family models in Taiwan as well as the relationship between Chiara Lubich’s concept of ‘unity’ and families will be explored to see whether her concepts could be a possible path to reconcile the conflicts of families, and how it could be possibly put into practice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bdfbe16a75af4d1e90f907cf625fb4da2023-03-13T09:28:01ZdeuWydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w OlsztynieForum Teologiczne1641-11962450-08362022-11-012311512610.31648/ft.7989CRISIS OF FAMILY REALITIES IN TAIWAN: CHIARA LUBICH’S CONCEPT OF ‘UNITY’ AS THE POSSIBLE CORE PATH OF RECONCILIATIONSonja Meiting Huang0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9782-1566Fu Jen Catholic University, TaiwanFrom the Past to the Present, Taiwan, as part of the Chinese cultural circle, has experienced distinct changes in family reality. Politics, economy, migration, and globalization have been or are the crucial factors influencing families. Polygamy, extended family, nuclear family, transnational family, same-sex marriage and diversified family construct the contexts of families in Taiwan. These multi-family forms seem to ingratiate themselves with the popular concept of ‘diversity’, which has been articulated since the 21st century. Many people think that ‘diversity’ could eliminate conflicts, because not any part will be ignored; ‘diversity’ shows tolerance and social progress. In fact, there are at the same time, increasing conflicts and problems occurring because of diversity. What would be the potential causes of problems? And how could these problems and conflicts in the families be dealt with? The core solutions seem not easy to find. Since the 1960s, Chiara Lubich’s concepts: ‘unity’, ‘mutual love’, and ‘the model of the new family’ have spread into Taiwan. Her concepts have influenced many families to live in a new way. In this paper, several historical and current family models in Taiwan as well as the relationship between Chiara Lubich’s concept of ‘unity’ and families will be explored to see whether her concepts could be a possible path to reconcile the conflicts of families, and how it could be possibly put into practice.https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/ft/article/view/7989new familychiara lubichunitydiversitysame-sex marriage |
| spellingShingle | Sonja Meiting Huang CRISIS OF FAMILY REALITIES IN TAIWAN: CHIARA LUBICH’S CONCEPT OF ‘UNITY’ AS THE POSSIBLE CORE PATH OF RECONCILIATION Forum Teologiczne new family chiara lubich unity diversity same-sex marriage |
| title | CRISIS OF FAMILY REALITIES IN TAIWAN: CHIARA LUBICH’S CONCEPT OF ‘UNITY’ AS THE POSSIBLE CORE PATH OF RECONCILIATION |
| title_full | CRISIS OF FAMILY REALITIES IN TAIWAN: CHIARA LUBICH’S CONCEPT OF ‘UNITY’ AS THE POSSIBLE CORE PATH OF RECONCILIATION |
| title_fullStr | CRISIS OF FAMILY REALITIES IN TAIWAN: CHIARA LUBICH’S CONCEPT OF ‘UNITY’ AS THE POSSIBLE CORE PATH OF RECONCILIATION |
| title_full_unstemmed | CRISIS OF FAMILY REALITIES IN TAIWAN: CHIARA LUBICH’S CONCEPT OF ‘UNITY’ AS THE POSSIBLE CORE PATH OF RECONCILIATION |
| title_short | CRISIS OF FAMILY REALITIES IN TAIWAN: CHIARA LUBICH’S CONCEPT OF ‘UNITY’ AS THE POSSIBLE CORE PATH OF RECONCILIATION |
| title_sort | crisis of family realities in taiwan chiara lubich s concept of unity as the possible core path of reconciliation |
| topic | new family chiara lubich unity diversity same-sex marriage |
| url | https://czasopisma.uwm.edu.pl/index.php/ft/article/view/7989 |
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