The Distant Reading of Religious Texts: A “Big Data” Approach to Mind-Body Concepts in Early China

This article focuses on the debate about mind-body concepts in early China to demonstrate the usefulness of large-scale, automated textual analysis techniques for scholars of religion. As previous scholarship has argued, traditional, “close” textual reading, as well as more recent, human coder-based...

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Authors: Slingerland, Edward G. 1968- (Author) ; Logan, Carson (Author) ; Nielbo, Kristoffer Laigaard (Author) ; Nichols, Ryan (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2017]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 85, Issue: 4, Pages: 985-1016
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Chinese language / Religious literature / Body / Conception
RelBib Classification:AA Study of religion
BM Chinese universism; Confucianism; Taoism
KBM Asia
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