Daoism in Brazil: The Globalization of the Orthodox Unity (Zhengyi) Tradition
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Abstract
The Daoist Society of Brazil (Sociedade Taoista do Brasil) was founded by Wu Jyh Cherng (Wu \nZhicheng 武志成), a Taiwanese immigrant, in 1991. Today the Society operates two temples in \nRio de Janeiro and São Paulo, and is the only religious organization in South America that is \naffiliated with the Daoist Society of China in the Orthodox Unity (Zhengyi 正一) lineage. The \ngroup, however, is not made up of other immigrants or Brazilians of Chinese descent; rather the \nentire group and current priesthood consist of Brazilians of non-Chinese ancestry. \nThis essay examines the history and development of the Daoist Society of Brazil and its \nmembers’ understandings of Daoism through site visits and interviews conducted in December \n2009. From this I develop a theory of the particular characteristics of Brazilian religious culture \nthat enabled the formation of a Zhengyi Daoist community outside of ethnically Chinese people. \nThe practices of the two temples thus represent a hybrid of Chinese and Brazilian cultural forms \nthat have been negotiated through a complex assessment of how to maintain authentic religious \ntraditions in a non-traditional cultural context. Although the transcultural practices of the Daoist \nSociety of Brazil can only be fully understood in these particular terms, the Society also \nrepresents an important case study in the more general phenomenon of the globalization of \nreligious cultures and the formation of transcultural religious identities.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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