@article{Sørensen_2013, title={Sortes virtuales: a comparative approach to digital divination}, volume={25}, url={https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67439}, DOI={10.30674/scripta.67439}, abstractNote={Divination, or at least that branch of it that was once called inductive divin­ation, may perhaps be considered an early form of information technology: it involves an input of information as well as an output of information, and between them, there is a process of random access to a kind of retrieval system. At any rate, divination has proven to be almost the ideal form of religious practice for the internet; in principle, at least, an act of divination may be fully accomplished on a personal computer. This paper comparatively explores a number of perspectives on these relatively recent developments, which may possibly also help us towards a more qualified understanding of traditional forms of divination.}, journal={Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis}, author={Sørensen, Jørgen}, year={2013}, month={Jan.}, pages={181–188} }