Conversations with Oneself:The Subculture of Divination and the Spiritual World of Contemporary Youths
The article is a field note based on a long-term tracking investigation of the divination subculture and the spiritual world of contemporary youths.Guided by the"process-context"method,there are four relatively complete cases used to present four attitudes towards understanding and responding to divination subculture.The main idea of this article is focused on the following three points.First,what people seek in divination subcultures is not a definite result,but an attempt to understand their own situations and their relationships with the outside world.Second,people's understanding of fate will constantly adjust with changes in their own conditions and changes in their relationships with the outside world.Third,both divination and its consequences are social facts,which have an impact on people's thinking and coping with their own relationships with fate.
DivinationSubcultureProcess-contextFateSpiritual Life