北港武德宮──傳統民俗金香文化如何跟上現代環境正義的思維

Beigang Wude Temple How to Align Traditional Jinxiang Cult ure w ith Modern Environmental Justice Thinking

金香文化是傳統民俗信仰中的重要結構，也是佛道教與民間社會的普世價值。當政府主管機關進行具爭議性的宗教空氣品質檢測方法時，引發宮廟不同程度的反彈效應。當爭議產生時，主管機關也未能適時對政策作出說明。經由媒體傳播發酵，引起民間信仰社會「滅香」恐慌，引發金香業者與宮廟自發組織「捍衛信仰守護香火大聯盟」，由武德宮林安樂主任委員號召發起「眾神上凱道」抗議活動訴求香火不能斷，引起國內外媒體矚目。當環保成為一種新的道德價值時，傳統民俗金香文化如何跟上現代環境正義的策略，面對環境壓力的危機中找到利基，進行組織變革，在環境正義與金香文化中取得最佳的平衡點。

Jinxiangculture,which refers totheChinese ritual of burning incense or joss money, is acrucial structural component of traditional customs and beliefs, as well as auniversally heldvalue of Buddhism, Daoism, and folk society. Unsurprisingly then, after applying controversial air quality detection methods to religious rituals, government authorities have met with varying degrees of resistance from templesand have also yet to provide a timely explanation for their policies. Subsequently, exposure and disseminationof this issue by the media aroused thefear of “incense elimination” in folk belief society, promptingjinxiangpractitioners and temples to establish the “Alliance for Defending Faith and Protecting Incense”, and Chairman An-le Lin of WudeTemple to initiate the “All Gods on Ketagalan Boulevard' protest in opposition tothe ceasing of incense burning—events which gained the attention of both domestic and overseas media.In lightof the fact thatenvironmental protection has become a new moral value, it seems reasonable to ask how the traditional custom of jinxiangculture must align with modern environmental justice concepts, find a niche amidst the crisis of environmental pressure,and make organizational changes, so as to find theoptimal balancing point between environmental justice andthe preservation ofjinxiangculture.