Vincent Goossaert is a historian, director of studies at EPHE, PSL and co-editor of T'oung-Pao, the oldest scientific journal of sinology in the West. He works on the history of pre-modern and modern Chinese religion, and is particularly interested in Taoism, the professions of religion, social and religious regulations, the production of moral standards, and sociability between humans and gods. He is the author of some twenty solo and collective works, including Making the Gods Speak. The Ritual Production of Revelation in Chinese History (2022), Heavenly Masters. Two Thousand Years of the Daoist State (2021), Vies des saints exorcistes. Hagiographies taoïstes, XIe-XVIe siècles (Paris, les Belles Lettres, 2021) and Bureaucratie et salut. Becoming a god in China (2017).