This article examines spirit shrines in Toronto’s Chinatowns by drawing on two broad areas of existing scholarship: the study of Chinese popular religion in native communities by scholars like Adam Chau, Alessandro Dell’Orto, Randall Nadeau and Chang Hsun, and Donald Sutton; and the study of the religiosity of North American Chinese diasporic communities which concentrates primarily on Christianity and peripherally Buddhism by scholars like Rudy Busto, Kenneth Guest, Lien Pei-te, and Yang Fenggang. This paper aims to describe one aspect of folk, non-textual diasporic Chinese religiosity expressed in spirit shrines as a means through which to explore the apparent anomaly of the ‘‘non-religious’’ Chinese-Canadian.
Mon article se penche sur les sanctuaires aux esprits dans les quartiers chinois de Toronto, en s’appuyant sur deux traditions de recherche : l’étude des religions populaires chinoises dans les communautés d’origine par des chercheurs tels qu’Adam Chau, Alessandro Dell’Orto, Randall Nadeau, Chang Hsun et Donald Sutton, ainsi que les études sur la religiosité des communautés de la diaspora chinoise d’Amérique du nord, qui portent une attention particulière sur le christianisme et, à l’occasion, le bouddhisme, par des chercheurs tels que Rudy Busto, Kenneth Guest, Lien Pei-te, et Yang Fenggang. Mon article vise à décrire un aspect de la religiosité chinoise populaire, non-textuelle, qui s’exprime dans les sanctuaires aux esprits, afin de mieux explorer l’anomalie apparente de la « non-religiosité » des sino-canadiens.
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