Interdisciplinary Research on the Contemporary Spirituality Culture : from the Viewpoint of Network Formation via the Web Community

当看到大量的信息积累到目前为止的主题“灵性”和它的学术定义，很明显，“灵性”的含义一直难以把握。本研究的目的是分析我们主要通过网络社区收集的关于这一主题的信息，并在理论和实践方面的学术框架内提出结果。更具体地说，我们推出和管理门户网站'精神导航'（缩写为Spinavi）和博客“我的Spinavi”。在这项研究中，我们使用了几种方法来分析反馈意见和在线交换的其他信息：我们对网上发帖者进行了精神心理测试的因素分析，并对我们创建的论坛帖子数量和对“精神”感兴趣的个人在博客上使用的帖子数量;最后，我们还分析了发表评论和trackbacking博客帖子所产生的关系。我们的分析结果证实了一种应该被称为“精神危机”的趋势的存在：虽然可以在Spinavi的在线海报中观察到一种独立的精神，但这种精神通过他们的交流而持续，并不倾向于经得起时间的考验。此外，尽管我们观察到在线海报之间的合作，这一事实可以被视为“支持社区”的形成，但很明显，这种合作停留在肤浅和“软弱”的灵性层面。在这个研究项目中，研究了几个实际的主题，例如通过“灵性”的机构形成对话的可能性，以及灵性爱好者和信徒如何联系的问题。

When looking at the mass of information accumulated so far on the subject of "spirituality" and at academic definitions of it, it is evident that the meaning of "spirituality" has been difficult to grasp. The objective of this research was to analyze information that we collected about this subject mainly through the web community and to present the results within an academic framework both in theoretical and in practical terms. More concretely, we launched and managed the portal website'spiritual navigator' (abbr.Spinavi) and the blog 'My Spinavi'.In this research we used several methods to analyze the feedback comments and the rest of the information exchanged online : we undertook a factor analysis of the spiritual psychological test conducted on the online posters and a multiple regression analysis between the number of posts in the forum that we created and the number of posts on blogs used by individuals who have an interest in the "spiritual" ; finally, we also analyzed the relationships born out of posting comments and trackbacking blog posts. The results of our analysis confirmed the existence of a tendency that should be termed a "spiritual crisis" : while an independent spirituality could be observed among the online posters of Spinavi, this spirituality, which is sustained through their exchanges, does not tend to withstand time. In addition and despite of our observation of a cooperation between online posters, a fact that could be seen as the formation of 'a community of support', it became clear that such a cooperation stops at the level of a superficial and 'weak' spirituality. Several practical themes were examined in this research project, such as the possibility of forming dialogues through the agency of 'spirituality' and the question of how enthusiasts and believers of spirituality are related.