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Divination

perspectives for a new millenium

by Patrick Curry

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English
  • Content type: Fiction

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Description from Gegnir/Leitir — Icelandic Union Catalogue (opens in a new tab)

This interdisciplinary collection by leading scholars in the field is dedicated to fascinating new insights into divination and oracles arising from recent work in anthropology, religious studies, history and classical studies. Central importance is given to the practical and theoretical perspectives of diviners as well as scholars of divination; several contributors are both. This book explores philosophical issues such as the nature of divinatory intelligence, the relationship between divinatory and metaphorical truth, the primacy of ontology over epistemology, the importance of reflexivity

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles, Prophecy, oracles, and revelation, and Shamanism and spirit practice.

  • Divination and oracles

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perspectives for a new millenium

[Paperback edition]

2016—English
  • 9781138268210
  • 1138268216
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perspectives for a new millenium

1st ed

1 online resource (304 p.); 10 Arrows, Aiming and Divination: Astrology as a Stochastic Art11 Life between Lives Therapy: A Mystery Ritual for Modern Times?; 12 Talking and Walking with Spirits: Fresh Perspectives on a Medieval Necromantic System; 13 Clarifying Divinatory Dialogue: A Proposal for a Distinction between Practitioner Divination and Essential Divination; Afterword Of Ises and Oughts: An Endnote on Divinatory Obligation; Index; Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Theorizing Divinatory Acts: The Integrative Discourse of Dream Oracles; 3 'Twinning' and 'Perfect Knowledge' in African Systems of Divination; 4 Memoir as Method, or 'What the Devil Was I up to Anyway?'; 5 Central Asian and Northern European Shamanism; 6 The Carbon Footprint of Oracles: How Green is Divination?; 7 Embodiment, Alterity and Agency: Negotiating Antinomies in Divination; 8 Chicane: Double-Thinking and Divination among the Witch-Doctors; 9 Darwin's Fortune, Jonah's Shipmates and the Persistence of Chance; Description based upon print version of record; Dewey classification: 133.3; Includes bibliographical references and index; Publication place: Burlington, VT; Publication place: Farnham, Surrey

2010Ashgate; Ashgate Pub; Ashgate Pub.; RoutledgeEnglish
  • 9781315577777
  • 9781317149026
  • 9781409405559
  • 9786612774003
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