Sung Kwang-yu, who is employed at the Academia Sinica's Institute of Historical Philology, pointed out in his 1985 book Chinese Studies that believers on Taiwan are inclined to a more utilitarian type of thought.
中央研究院歷史語言研究所助理研究員宋光宇在七十四年的「漢學研究」中指出，台灣民間信仰中具有一種功利思想。