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Divination

A Cognitive Perspective

by Ze Hong

  • First published:
  • 21st century
  • Language: English

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This Element adopts a naturalistic, cognitive perspective to understand divination, examining belief, plausibility, and the socio-cultural factors influencing the perception and persistence of divination practices across societies and history. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Divination and oracles.

  • Divination and oracles

    Controlled discovery queries from crossref and doab matched “divination”. Retained metadata contains “Divination” in the title, “Divination” in the description, and “Divination” in the edition title.

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A Cognitive Perspective

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2025-05-22Cambridge University PressEnglish
  • 9781009541961
  • 9781009541992
  • 9781009542012
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