The Star-Crossed Renaissance (1941) examines the attitude of the thinkers of Renaissance England toward astrology, Was Shakespeare, for example, a believer in astrology? This book provides a comprehensive and thoroughly-researched answer....Daugiau...
First published in 1981, Divination and Oracles analyses the religious practices of the ancient world as they have been witnessed from Scandinavia to Tibet and Japan, from the third millennium BC until the present day....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Nov-2021, Leidėjas: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003093299)
This book critically examines the larger world of astrology in India, its ubiquity and relationship with religion, and its impact on economy, gender, class, religion, and caste....Daugiau...
This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon. It seeks to return attention to the details of divinatory practice, using the questions asked, and life histor...Daugiau...
Graphology, in English and American manuals of handwriting, stands in the relation with all other pseudo-sciences, founded on half truths and wrought with superstition and amateur fads, compared to modern science. In this book, the author attempts t...Daugiau...
Contains papers which deal with the development of astronomy and astrology in al-Andalus and the Maghrib between the 10th and the 19th centuries. This book provides a survey of the social history of the exact sciences in al-Andalus, and looks at ast...Daugiau...
Gunther Oestmann, H. Darrel Rutkin, Kocku von Stuckrad
Serija: Religion and Society
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Nov-2005, Leidėjas: Walter de Gruyter & Co, ISBN-13: 9783110925128)
This volume examines the specific role of horoscopic astrology in Western culture from antiquity to the nineteenth century. The volumes three parts address the use of imperial horoscopes in late antiquity, the transformation of doctrines and rhetor...Daugiau...
Magic and divination in early Islam encompassed a wide range of practices. The studies here are concerned with the pre-Islamic antecedents of such practices and with the theory of magic in healing, the nature and use of amulets and the arts of astro...Daugiau...
Mainstream science has long dismissed astrology as a form of primitive superstition, despite or perhaps even because of its huge popular interest....Daugiau...
This is the first book in any language that attempts to make an academic study of three sophisticated devices known as sanshi, used in the Chinese astronomical bureau in the 11th century....Daugiau...
This major new reference work is organised as a Chinese-English encyclopedia, arranged alphabetically according to the pinyin romanisation, with Chinese characters appended. A character index and an English index are included....Daugiau...
This is a collection of articles from various journals on the history of astronomy and astrology in the Medieval Islamic world. They look at subjects such as: Ibn al-Haythams determination of the meridian from one solar altitude, and an astrologica...Daugiau...
After discussing the terminology of talismanic magic (or necromancy) and its position in divisions of science in the Middle Ages, this book traces the history of talismanic texts from the Classical period through the Arabic world to the Latin Middle...Daugiau...
An account of astrology from its beginnings in Mesopotamia, focusing on the Greco-Roman world, Ancient Astrology examines the theoretical development and changing social and political role of astrology....Daugiau...
This study provides a social anthropologists perspective of the role of numbers and numeracy in Japanese popular culture. It explores the cultural roots of attitudes towards numbers and makes inferences about a culture in which numeracy is high but...Daugiau...
