Search results for “[subject: divination-general]”

• Author(s): Richard J Smith • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Divination - GeneralProviding an analysis of Chinese divination as a means of organizing and interpreting reality, Richard Smith examines a wid...

• Author(s): Michael Loewe • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Divination - GeneralFirst published in 1981, Divination and Oracles analyses the religious practices of the ancient world as they have been witne...

• Author(s): Michael Loewe • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Divination - GeneralFirst published in 1981, Divination and Oracles analyses the religious practices of the ancient world as they have been witne...

• Author(s): Richard J Smith • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Divination - GeneralProviding an analysis of Chinese divination as a means of organizing and interpreting reality, Richard Smith examines a wid...

• Author(s): Crystal Addey • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAddressing the close connections between ancient divination and knowledge, this volume offers an interlinked and detailed set of...

• Author(s): Patrick Curry • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: MeditationsDivination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A univers...

• Author(s): Matthew Dillon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAddressing the role which divination played in ancient Greek society, this volume deals with various forms of prophecy and how each was ut...

• Author(s): Matthew Dillon • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAddressing the role which divination played in ancient Greek society, this volume deals with various forms of prophecy and ...

• Author(s): Richard Evans • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis volume examines the ways in which divination, often through oracular utterances and other mechanisms, linked mortals with t...

• Author(s): Crystal Addey • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralAddressing the close connections between ancient divination and knowledge, this volume offers an interlinked and detailed set of...

• Author(s): Emilie Savage-Smith • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Islam - GeneralMagic and divination in early Islam encompassed a wide range of practices, including belief in jinn, warding off the evil eye, the prod...

• Author(s): Patrick Curry • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: MeditationsDivination is any ritual and its associated tradition performed in order to ask a more-than-human intelligence for guidance. A univers...

• Author(s): Richard Evans • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis volume examines the ways in which divination, often through oracular utterances and other mechanisms, linked mortals with t...

• Author(s): Giulia Frigerio • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThis volume takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach to investigating divination procedures at sanctuaries of Apollo in C...

• Author(s): Giulia Frigerio • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GreeceThis volume takes an innovative interdisciplinary approach to investigating divination procedures at sanctuaries of Apollo in C...

• Author(s): Robert Wisniewski • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralIn Late Antiquity, people commonly sought to acquire hidden knowledge about the past, the present, and the future, using a variety of m...

• Author(s): David Zeitlyn • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThis book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambi...

• Author(s): David Zeitlyn • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThis book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambi...

• Author(s): John Blofeld • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Regional StudiesThis book, first published in 1968, examines the I Ching, one of the oldest books in the world and certainly the most influential ...

• Author(s): Crystal Addey • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalWhy did ancient philosophers consult oracles, write about them, and consider them to be an importa...

• Author(s): David Brown • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Christianity - GeneralPartly in a desire to defend divine freedom and partly because it is seen as the only way of preserving a distinctive voice f...

• Author(s): David Brown • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Christianity - GeneralPartly in a desire to defend divine freedom and partly because it is seen as the only way of preserving a distinctive voice f...

• Author(s): John Laird • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralTheism is one of the major types of metaphysics and cosmology is the general theory of the whole wide world. Must the world have an over-worldly source,...

• Author(s): John Laird • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReligiousTheism is one of the major types of metaphysics and cosmology is the general theory of the whole wide world. Must the world have an over-wo...

• Author(s): Thomas G. Plante • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReferenceHuman Interaction with the Divine, the Sacred, and the Deceased brings together cutting-edge empirical and theoretical contributions ...

• Author(s): Agnes Horvath | Camil Francisc Roman | Gilbert Germain • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication...

• Author(s): Agnes Horvath • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis book offers a political anthropological discussion of subversion, exploring its imbrication with technological and divini...

• Author(s): R.T. Mullins • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Christian Theology - GeneralThis book offers the most extensive exploration of divine temporality to date. It focuses on five main questions. Firs...

• Author(s): James R. Linville • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralSaid to contain the words of the earliest of the biblical prophets (8th century BCE), the book of Amos is reinterpreted by the author ...

• Author(s): James R. Linville • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralSaid to contain the words of the earliest of the biblical prophets (8th century BCE), the book of Amos is reinterpreted by the author in light of...

• Author(s): Gregory Ganssle • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: ReligiousThis book discusses aspects of God's causal activity. It explores historical views of divine causal activity from the Pre-Socratics to...

• Author(s): Kyriakos Savvopoulos • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis is the first book dedicated to Alexandria's religious world, reconstructing its sacred topography, material culture, and ritual...

• Author(s): Charles Burnett • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Magick StudiesAfter discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book ...