草稿:林敬智

林敬智（1974年5月2日—），台北市人，台湾宗教学者、历史学者，国立政治大学宗教研究所助理教授、政大华人宗教研究中心研究员、政大华人文化元宇宙研究中心研究员、台湾数位人文学会理事、文山社区大学文山学研究推广社社员。曾任台湾数位人文学会秘书长、中央研究院近代史研究所中研院博士后研究员、政大华人宗教研究中心首席执行官、政大华人文化主体性研究中心研究员、教育部数位人文创新人才培育计划协同主持人、教育部全国大学校院人文社科领域学生竞赛推动计划协同主持人，并曾多次客座德国哥廷根大学东亚学系教授Chinese Popular Religion课程。柏克莱加州大学历史学博士，专业研究领域与兴趣包括华人宗教民间信仰、民间教派、宗教与环境、数位人文、环境史、文化史、民俗学、有形与无形文化资产，探讨宗教如何随人群迁徙及社会文化转型而调适，并关注宗教与生态环境的互动。博士论文研究山东微山湖水上人从陆地迁徙至水上所形塑其信仰与仪式变迁。

任教后持续关注华人民间信仰，结合历史文献、田野调查与数位人文GIS空间分析等方法，研究台湾与东南亚华人民间信仰。曾主持文化部“传统金纸及香制作无形文化资产调查计划”。近年来专研北台湾大文山地区福建安溪移民的宗教与民俗，并应用3D光达技术进行寺庙文化资产数位保存，筹划文山学研究基础架构与资料，观察北台湾大文山地区（木栅、景美、深坑、石碇、坪林、新店、乌来）生态环境、历史人文、产业经济、文化资产等，特别是与茶产业相关的宗教信仰，善尽大学社会责任（University Social Responsibility, USR）。著有《民间儒教及其现代命运：转型时代下一贯道的挑战与调适》。

Ching-chih Lin

Ching-chih Lin is a Taiwanese historian and scholar of Chinese popular religion. He is currently an assistant professor at the Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan. His research focuses on Chinese folklore, popular religion and sectarianism, environmental history, digital humanities, tangible and intangible cultural heritage, material culture, and New Year woodblock prints. His work explores how religious beliefs and folk practices are transformed and localized through population migration, as well as the interaction between religion and ecological environments.

Education and Academic Career

Lin received his Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Berkeley. He subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Göttingen in Germany in 2016, 2018, 2021, and 2025, where he offered intensive courses on Chinese Popular Religion.

Research Interests

Lin's doctoral dissertation focuses on the religious transformation of boat-dwelling communities in Weishan Lake (微山湖), located at the border of Shandong and Jiangsu provinces in North China. His research examines how these communities adapted their religious beliefs, rituals, and theogony during their transition from land-based to aquatic lifestyles.

His subsequent work has broadened to include historical studies, ethnographic fieldwork, and digital humanities approaches. He has employed GIS spatial analysis and social network analysis to study the religious beliefs and folk customs of both the Weishan Lake region and Taiwanese and Southeast Asian Chinese communities.

Cultural Heritage and Public Engagement

Lin has actively contributed to cultural heritage preservation. From December 2017 to December 2018, he led the “Investigation on the Potential Intangible Cultural Heritage of Traditional Joss Paper and Incense Making” project commissioned by the Cultural Heritage Bureau of Taiwan's Ministry of Culture.

Over the past five years, Lin has also conducted in-depth fieldwork on the tea-related religious practices and folk customs of migrants from Anxi County, Fujian Province, particularly those who settled in the Great Wenshan region of northern Taiwan, including Muzha, Jingmei, Shenkeng, Shiding, Pinglin, Xindian, and Wulai. His work has significantly contributed to the understanding of local cultural history and community formation.

Leadership in Digital Humanities

From August 2019 to February 2023, Lin served as Secretary-General of the Taiwanese Association for Digital Humanities. He has been actively involved in promoting the application of digital tools and methods in the humanities, particularly in the study of religion and Sinology. His recent projects have included the use of 3D LiDAR scanning and modeling to digitally document historical buildings and temples, thereby combining academic research with social responsibility.

Selected Research Areas

• Chinese popular religion and folk belief
• Religion and Environment
• Boat-dwelling communities in North China
• New Year woodblock prints and material culture
• Digital humanities in religious and historical studies
• Intangible cultural heritage preservation