“Writing with the Phoenix Brush” in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region – Recap

In July 2025, CAS-E hosted a delegation from a Taiwanese spirit-writing (fuji 扶乩 or 扶箕) community, organized by ISCSD president and CAS-E director Michael Lackner. The visit represented the first public demonstration of “writing with the Phoenix brush” in Germany, providing scholars and the public with an opportunity to observe this traditional religious practice. Following […]

New IJDP Issue Available

This year’s first issue of the International Journal of Divination and Prognostication has been published on July 18, 2025 and can be accessed online at https://brill.com/view/journals/ijdp/6/1/ijdp.6.issue-1.xml. This special issue, edited by our guest editor Stéphanie Homola, is dedicated to the subject of Online Divination Ethnographies: The Transformative Impact of Digital Technology and Social Media on […]

“Writing with the Phoenix Brush” in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region

Spirit-writing community from Taiwan

We are very pleased to announce the visit of a spirit-writing (fuji 扶乩 or 扶箕) community from Taiwan, hosted by CAS-E at the invitation of ISCSD president and CAS-E director Michael Lackner. The practice of “writing with the phoenix brush” remains widespread in Taiwan and parts of China to this day. A religious temple community […]

Online Lecture by Erwan Dianteill on Ifa and Geomancy

Erwan Dianteill, "Ifa Divination: A Comparative Project"

On May 7, 2025, ISCSD member Erwan Dianteill (Université Paris Cité – UFR SHS Sorbonne; Hutchins Center Fellow, Harvard University) held an online presentation on the YouTube channel of The Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University. The lecture entitled “Ifa and Geomancy: A Comparative Hermeneutics of Divinatory Systems in Africa, […]

Second Issue of IJDP 2024 Fresh off the Press

International Journal of Divination and Prognostication vol. 5, issue 2

  We are proud to present to you this year’s second issue of the International Journal of Divination and Prognostication.   Discover Volume 5, Issue 2 The second IJDP issue of 2024 continues the series of memorial articles edited by our guest editor Marta Hanson and dedicated to her late mentor Nathan Sivin, one of […]

First Issue of IJDP 2024 Out Now

International Journal of Divination and Prognostication vol. 5, issue 1

  We are delighted to inform you about the publication of the latest issue of the International Journal of Divination and Prognostication previously announced in March.   What Volume 5, Issue 1 Has to Offer This time, the journal presents a diverse collection of personal and scholarly perspectives on the history and current state of […]