Packet 7: Bonus 1

This term describes a fourth major stream in Chinese folk religion alongside Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism. For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this term for “folk religious sects” like Xiāntiāndào (“shee-EN-tee-en-dow”) and Yīguàndào (“yee-gwan-dow”), whose charismatic leaders proselytize by emphasizing individual moral fulfilment and the millenarian return of Maitreya.
ANSWER: salvationism [or salvationist; accept redemptive societies or redemption; accept jiùdù zōngjiào; prompt on mínjiān zōngjiào, mínjiān jiàomén, mínjiān jiàopài, or mínjiān xìnyǎng]
[10m] Sects like Yīguàndào worship the Queen Mother of the West, who resides in this location. The Salvationist religion Wéixīnism (“way-sheen-ism”) traces its doctrines to a primordial civilization at this Chinese axis mundi.
ANSWER: Kūnlún [or Kūnlún Shān, or Mount Kunlun, or Kunlun mountain]
[10e] Wéixīnism was founded in this country, where about 10 percent of people practice salvationist sects. This country also has the highest identification with Taoism and the vast majority of temples to the fishermen’s goddess Māzǔ.
ANSWER: Taiwan [or Republic of China or ROC]
<Editors, Religion> | P. Playoffs 7 (Editors 7)

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