‘Heri-ligion’: The Heritagization of Religion and the Sacralization of Heritage

In this chapter, we survey the rich tapestry of numerous processes, events and interrelationships that illustrate ‘heri-ligion’ in practice in Yim Tin Tsai as defined by the eleven factors listed in Chapter 2 that constitute our concept. The transformation of Yim Tin Tsai, from a village originally predicated geographically and sociologically on the application of feng shui to a community guided by Catholicism, is charted. Sacralization and secularization are evident as major components of heritage-making and are manifested in many configurations.