{"title":"Vincent Goossaert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVincent Goossaert\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a profound exploration of religious traditions and spiritual practices, delving into how communities give voice to the divine. His works illuminate the complex interplay between belief, ritual, and cultural expression, inviting readers to reconsider the ways gods and spirituality shape human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders will find thoughtful analyses rooted in rigorous scholarship, often focusing on ritual performance and sacred communication. These books enrich the understanding of religion as a lived, dynamic phenomenon, appealing to those curious about the nuances of faith and its role in society.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"making-the-gods-speak-by-vincent-goossaert-9780674270947","title":"Making the Gods Speak","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor two millennia, Chinese society has been producing divine revelations on an unparalleled scale, in multifarious genres and formats. This book is the first comprehensive attempt at accounting for the processes of such production. It builds a typology of the various ritual techniques used to make gods present and allow them to speak or write, and it follows the historical development of these types and the revealed teachings they made possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithin the large array of visionary, mediumistic, and mystical techniques, Vincent Goossaert devotes the bulk of his analysis to spirit-writing, a family of rites that appeared around the eleventh century and gradually came to account for the largest numbers of books and tracts ascribed to the gods. In doing so, he shows that the practice of spirit-writing must be placed within the framework of techniques used by ritual specialists to control human communications with gods and spirits for healing, divining, and self-divinisation, among other purposes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking the Gods Speak\u003c\/em\u003e thus offers a ritual-centred framework to study revelation in Chinese cultural history and comparatively with the revelatory practices of other religious traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463528071404,"sku":"9780674270947","price":121.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674270947-making-the-gods-speak.jpg?v=1775034140"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/vincent-goossaert.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}