Taiwanese American Religious Study Association
Taiwanese American Religious Study Association (|台美人信仰與人文研習會) is listed as a group member of the |Taiwan Center Foundation of the Greater Los Angeles.
Identity Snapshot
- Chinese: |台美人信仰與人文研習會
- English (as listed): Taiwanese American Religious Study Association
- Relation: Taiwan Center group member (official listing)
- Source: https://www.taiwancenter.org/group-members ·
taiwancenter-org-group-members.md
Timeline (from TAH archive records)
- 2012 — earliest corpus trace: yearbook deposited as 831. 台美人宗教研習會2012年刊 (recorded under the shorter earlier name 台美人宗教研習會)
- 2013 — second yearbook: 832. 台美人宗教研習會2013年刊
- 2014 — third yearbook (833. 台美人宗教研習會2014年刊) plus a special issue the same year (834. 台美人宗教研習會2014特刊, dated 2014/10) — two publications in one year indicates an intensive publishing phase
- 2014-11-10 — organization record enters the Taiwanese American digital archive: 4. TARSA-SC 台美人信仰與人文研習會
- 2015-01-04 — activity photo album: 台美人宗教研習會 (shorter name variant on file)
- 2015-12-20 — the association’s 2015 yearbook (923. 2015年刊) and lecture recording vol. 5 (924. 演講錄影第五集) deposited as magazines/DVD
- 2017-06-15 — its newsletter is tracked in the archive: Newsletter of TARSA-SC
- 2020-05-04 — video documentation of talks and activities: 161. Videos of TARSA-SC
The continuous 2014–2020 deposit trail shows an active lecture/publication program, not a dormant listing. See also TARSA-SC.
Re-grep 2026-09-21: corpus hits (records 831/832/833/834, 923/924, the TARSA-SC org record) are all already linked above; the 923 title confirms the 2015 name transition to 台美人信仰與人文研習會 already recorded here. No new absorbable material.
Re-grep 2026-09-24 (slice 09230500-21): fresh grep (台美人宗教研習會／信仰與人文研習會／TARSA) returns records 831-834, 923 and the TARSA-SC org record — all already linked above. Verified saturated.
Re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240400-1): fresh grep (台美人宗教研習會／信仰與人文研習會／TARSA) returns records 831-834, 923 and the TARSA-SC org record — all already linked in the Timeline above. Verified saturated.
Re-grep 2026-09-26 (slice 09260317-24): fresh grep (台美人宗教研習會／信仰與人文研習會／TARSA) again returns only records 831-834, 923/924 and the TARSA-SC org record — all already linked in the Timeline above. Verified saturated; no new absorbable material.
Re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09250700-9): fresh grep (台美人宗教研習會／信仰與人文研習會／TARSA) again returns only records 831-834, 923 and the TARSA-SC org record — all already linked in the Timeline above. Verified saturated; no new absorbable material.
Re-grep 2026-09-27 (slice 09260700-8): fresh grep (台美人宗教研習會／信仰與人文研習會／TARSA) again returns only records 831-834, 923 and the TARSA-SC org record — all already linked in the Timeline above. Verified saturated; no new absorbable material.
From the record
- 2014-11-09 — corpus record 11 (葉思雅’s first-person account, published in the taiwaneseamericanhistory.org Our Journeys series) documents that TARSA (台美人宗教研習會) was founded on 2009-10-29 at the Greater Los Angeles Taiwan Center (台灣會館) by 林天民教授, 黃哲陽醫師, 黃友成先生 and the author, joined the Taiwan Center as a permanent group member (永久社團會員), and held its first study session on 2013-11-12 with 39 attendees, thereafter monthly on the second Thursday afternoon — the founding account behind the group-membership listing in the Identity Snapshot above.
Source Notes
- Content priority A: Name on Taiwan Center group-members page
- Hub: |taiwancenter.org
- Content priority C: Independent history not expanded from listing alone