Ancient divination and experience
This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The...
| Autres titres: | "This volume is the result of a conference held in London, in July 2015, on the topc of divination in ancient cultures ..." |
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| Collaborateurs: | ; |
| Type de support: | Numérique/imprimé Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2019
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| Dans: | Année: 2019 |
| Volumes / Articles: | Montrer les volumes/articles. |
| Édition: | First edition |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Grèce antique (Antiquité)
/ Römisches Reich
/ Alter Orient
/ China
/ Divination
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| RelBib Classification: | BE Religion gréco-romaine |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Greece
B Divination B China B Rome (Empire) B Religion B Iraq B China Religion B Contribution <colloque> 2015 (London) B Iraq Religion B Greece Religion B Rome Religion |
| Accès en ligne: |
Table des matières Quatrième de couverture Volltext (doi) |
| Édition parallèle: | Électronique
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| Résumé: | This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The chapters, authored by a range of established experts and upcoming early-career scholars, engage with four shared questions: What kinds of gods do ancient forms of divination presuppose? What beliefs, anxieties, and hopes did divination seek to address? What were the limits of human 'control' of divination? What kinds of human-divine relationships did divination create/sustain? The volume as a whole seeks to move beyond functionalist approaches to divination in order to identify and elucidate previously understudied aspects of ancient divinatory experience and practice. Special attention is paid to the experiences of non-elites, the perception of divine presence, the ways in which divinatory techniques could surprise their users by yielding unexpected or unwanted results, the difficulties of interpretation with which divinatory experts were thought to contend, and the possibility that divination could not just ease, but also exacerbate, anxiety in0practitioners and consultants |
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| Description: | "This volume is the result of a conference held in London, in July 2015, on the topic of divination in ancient cultures, with particular focus on Greece and Rome." - Introduction |
| ISBN: | 0198844549 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198844549.001.0001 |