David K. Jordan

He studied at Stanford and the University of Chicago, where he earned his Ph.D. in anthropology in 1969. David K. Jordan served as a long-time professor at the University of California, San Diego, with research expertise in cultural and psychological anthropology, religious anthropology, Chinese folk religion, and sociolinguistics. Jordan had broad interests and a distinguished reputation in both research and teaching. He was among the early pioneers in the anthropology of Chinese society. His book Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors (1972) was the first comprehensive ethnographic analysis of Taiwanese Han Chinese folk religion in the English-speaking world. Co-authored with D. Overmyer, The Flying Phoenix (1986) (Chinese translation: Fei Luan: Aspects of Chinese Sectarianism, 2005) was another groundbreaking work on folk associations and spirit-writing phenomena in Han Chinese society. In his ethnographic accounts, Jordan often provided delicate social and cultural psychological analyses of the religious practices of Han Chinese people, offering structural interpretations. Jordan conducted multiple field studies in Taiwan and is now Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, but remains active in research and teaching.

Translator: Ding Renjie

Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. He has authored monographs such as Helping Behavior in Social Context, Social Differentiation and Institutional Change in Religion, and Contemporary Studies of Han Chinese Folk Religion. His research focuses on the sociology of religion, including traditional and contemporary charitable activities, new religious movements, religious organizations and movements, Han Chinese folk beliefs, and rural social change.

焦大衛（David K. Jordan）

曾就讀史丹佛與芝加哥大學，1969年芝加哥大學人類學博士。David K. Jordan長期擔任加州大學聖地牙哥校區教授，研究專長為文化與心理人類學、宗教人類學、漢人民間信仰、社會語言學等。Jordan在研究與教學方面興趣廣泛、聲望卓著，他是研究漢人社會的人類學家中較早期的拓荒者，所著的Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors（1972），是英語世界第一本全面而完整的台灣漢人民間信仰民族誌分析m他與 D. Overmyer合著的The Flying Phoenix（1986）［中譯本《飛鸞︰中國民間教派面面觀》，2005］，是另一本研究漢人社會民間結社與扶鸞現象的開創性著作。Jordan民族誌報導中，往往能對漢人社會民眾宗教實踐進行細膩的社會與文化心理分析，並提出結構性的解釋觀點。Jordan多次來台進行田野研究，目前為加州大學聖地牙哥校區榮退教授，但仍繼續活躍於研究與教學工作。

譯者：丁仁傑

威斯康辛大學麥迪遜校區社會學博士，中央研究院民族學研究所副研究員，出版有專著《社會脈絡中的助人行為》、《社會分化與宗教制度變遷》、《當代漢人民眾宗教研究》等。研究領域以宗教社會學為主，包括傳統與當代慈善活動、新興宗教、宗教組織與宗教運動、漢人民間信仰、農村社會變遷等。