The Research on Motivation of Taiwanese Religious Giving

• Main Authors: Pei-shan Kao, 高珮珊
• Other Authors: I-Fung Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/63859605916710861578

碩士 === 國立臺南大學 === 文化與自然資源學系碩士班 === 100 === By means of the combined data on religion from three rounds ( round five third quarter, 1999; round five, fourth quarter, 2004; round five, fifth quarter, 2009) of questionnaire of Taiwan Social Change Survey conducted by the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica, this study investigated the religious giving on Taiwanese. Our main purpose to understand who a person''s special behavior of the religious giving and which the influence factors to help for undertaking of charitable by religious. The results of study are the following: 1.The general demographic factors of people that have higher rate of participating in yearly religious giving are: Men; twenty years old or below; single; those who have university education or above. People that have higher rate of Donation Amount are: forty to forty-nine years old and fifty to fifty-nine years old and ; married couples; ; those who have university education or above, and those who have fourteen thousand dollars in monthly income per family. 2.The general factors of people who had religious giving are as follows: who have higher rate of Donation Amount are: Buddhism and Christianity. Who have higher rate of participating in yearly religious giving are: Non-religious. The reason of giving is praying for blessings and devotion. The former factor made religious giving become a method to be religious in order to be safe and well. The latter one reflects Taiwanese hope religious groups can help society. According to these conclusions, the main religion is Buddhism and Chinese Folk Religion. The people who usually donate to Buddhism and Chinese folk religion, are affected by their beliefs. If religious groups can help minority groups to achieve Corporate Social Responsibility, the donators can help their families to do good work and to reach social identity. Keywords：religious giving, religious attitude, undertaking of charitable by religious, religious behavior, charitable behavior