草稿:林敬智

林敬智（1974年5月2日—），台北市人，台灣宗教學者、歷史學者，國立政治大學宗教研究所助理教授、政大華人宗教研究中心研究員、政大華人文化元宇宙研究中心研究員、台灣數位人文學會理事、文山社區大學文山學研究推廣社社員。曾任台灣數位人文學會秘書長、中央研究院近代史研究所中研院博士後研究員、政大華人宗教研究中心執行長、政大華人文化主體性研究中心研究員、教育部數位人文創新人才培育計畫協同主持人、教育部全國大學校院人文社科領域學生競賽推動計畫協同主持人，並曾多次客座德國哥廷根大學東亞學系教授Chinese Popular Religion課程。柏克萊加州大學歷史學博士，專業研究領域與興趣包括華人宗教民間信仰、民間教派、宗教與環境、數位人文、環境史、文化史、民俗學、有形與無形文化資產，探討宗教如何隨人群遷徙及社會文化轉型而調適，並關注宗教與生態環境的互動。博士論文研究山東微山湖水上人從陸地遷徙至水上所形塑其信仰與儀式變遷。

任教後持續關注華人民間信仰，結合歷史文獻、田野調查與數位人文GIS空間分析等方法，研究台灣與東南亞華人民間信仰。曾主持文化部「傳統金紙及香製作無形文化資產調查計畫」。近年來專研北台灣大文山地區福建安溪移民的宗教與民俗，並應用3D光達技術進行寺廟文化資產數位保存，籌劃文山學研究基礎架構與資料，觀察北台灣大文山地區（木柵、景美、深坑、石碇、坪林、新店、烏來）生態環境、歷史人文、產業經濟、文化資產等，特別是與茶產業相關的宗教信仰，善盡大學社會責任（University Social Responsibility, USR）。著有《民間儒教及其現代命運：轉型時代下一貫道的挑戰與調適》。

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