Vincent Goossaert a contribué au nouveau numéro de la revue Religions (14/2, 2023). Son article, intitulé “The Social Networks of Gods in Late Imperial Spirit-Writing Altars”, est basé sur sa présentation du même titre, donnée au séminaire du centre Fairbank pour les études chinoises à Harvard le 21 mars 2022. L’article, en anglais, est disponible en ligne dans son intégralité.
Présentation :
“The late imperial-educated Chinese interacted with a very large array of gods through various means, especially spirit-writing, for which we have abundant detailed records. While a few prominent gods have been studied in this context, there are currently no comprehensive studies of the connections between humans and gods. Using the records of thirteen different spirit-writing altars in various parts of the Chinese world between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, this paper maps the 478 gods involved using standard social network analysis visualizations, and identifies the types of gods that played central roles (connecting many different gods and humans) and those that had fewer, more exclusive sociabilities.”
mots-clés : écriture inspirée, Taoïsme, Bouddhisme, dieux
Page de l’article : https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/2/217
Goossaert, Vincent. “The Social Networks of Gods in Late Imperial SPirit-Writing Altars” in Religions (14/2, numéro spécial “Historical Network Analysis in the Study of Religion”). Bâle : MDPI, 2023
(source : https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/2/217)
