Add to ORKGWhat is divination? In the broadest terms, if we consider oracle systems such as the Yi Jing (sometimes written “I Ching”) or the Tarot, it is the use of chance events to access one or more images from the oracle. Those images are taken to be directly related to the problem or question that is troubling the person and, because of this
In studies of ancient Greek divination, oracles are often claimed to pronounce ambiguous but true st...
In a paper published in 1926, Lévy-Bruhl suggests a close affinity between the mentality of the gamb...
Exegesis of the Confucian classics, especially of the Changes Classic (I-Ching) and the Spring and A...
The way types of divination move round the planet means it is not helpful to simply attribute one un...
The study of divination remains of central relevance to anthropology for what it reveals about the r...
Although divination—the attempt to gain insight into human life (and particularly the future) throug...
Many divination systems are epistemologically justified accord-ing to an explicit ontology: results ...
The performance of ritual is infested with risk. Risk of one's status as a competent performer, risk...
Divination, or at least that branch of it that was once called inductive divination, may perhaps be...
The introduction to this volume describes the contribution that it makes to scholarship on ancient d...
Some systems of divination are used to select particular sections of text, which are typically arcan...
While anthropology has had an extensive interest in divination, little attention has been given to t...
Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism. Oracles of the Gods By Crystal Addey, 2014 Why did ancient p...
In this article, the author explores basket divination, a technique found in Zambia and neighboring ...
Cicero’s De divinatione portrays the Stoics as unanimous in advocating both natural and technical di...
In studies of ancient Greek divination, oracles are often claimed to pronounce ambiguous but true st...
In a paper published in 1926, Lévy-Bruhl suggests a close affinity between the mentality of the gamb...
Exegesis of the Confucian classics, especially of the Changes Classic (I-Ching) and the Spring and A...
The way types of divination move round the planet means it is not helpful to simply attribute one un...
The study of divination remains of central relevance to anthropology for what it reveals about the r...
Although divination—the attempt to gain insight into human life (and particularly the future) throug...
Many divination systems are epistemologically justified accord-ing to an explicit ontology: results ...
The performance of ritual is infested with risk. Risk of one's status as a competent performer, risk...
Divination, or at least that branch of it that was once called inductive divination, may perhaps be...
The introduction to this volume describes the contribution that it makes to scholarship on ancient d...
Some systems of divination are used to select particular sections of text, which are typically arcan...
While anthropology has had an extensive interest in divination, little attention has been given to t...
Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism. Oracles of the Gods By Crystal Addey, 2014 Why did ancient p...
In this article, the author explores basket divination, a technique found in Zambia and neighboring ...
Cicero’s De divinatione portrays the Stoics as unanimous in advocating both natural and technical di...
In studies of ancient Greek divination, oracles are often claimed to pronounce ambiguous but true st...
In a paper published in 1926, Lévy-Bruhl suggests a close affinity between the mentality of the gamb...
Exegesis of the Confucian classics, especially of the Changes Classic (I-Ching) and the Spring and A...