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oapen-20.500.12657-398762020-06-24T00:50:25Z Ancient Divination and Experience Driediger-Murphy, Lindsay Eidinow, Esther divination functionalism anthropology communication interaction anxiety Greek Roman Mesopotamian Chinese bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRK Other non-Christian religions::HRKP Ancient religions & mythologies bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBL History: earliest times to present day::HBLA Ancient history: to c 500 CE::HBLA1 Classical history / classical civilisation bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBB Literary studies: classical, early & medieval bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAC Comparative religion bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRA Religion: general::HRAX History of religion The introduction to this volume describes the contribution that it makes to scholarship on ancient divinatory practices. It analyses previous and current research, arguing that while this predominantly functionalist work reveals important socio-political dimensions of divination, it also runs the risk of obscuring from view the very people, ideologies, and experiences that scholars seek to understand. It explains that the essays in this volume focus on re-examining what ancient people—primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures—thought they were doing through divination. The Introduction provides an overview of the content of each chapter and identifies key themes and questions shared across chapters. The volume explores the types of relationships that divination created between mortals and gods, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. 2020-06-23T14:38:01Z 2020-06-23T14:38:01Z 2019 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39876 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9780198844549.pdf https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ancient-divination-and-experience-9780198844549 Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780198844549.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780198844549.001.0001 b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 288fb6b7-e23c-43d3-9a84-ad058a42edb5 320 Oxford Leverhulme Trust open access
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The introduction to this volume describes the contribution that it makes to scholarship on ancient divinatory practices. It analyses previous and current research, arguing that while this predominantly functionalist work reveals important socio-political dimensions of divination, it also runs the risk of obscuring from view the very people, ideologies, and experiences that scholars seek to understand. It explains that the essays in this volume focus on re-examining what ancient people—primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures—thought they were doing through divination. The Introduction provides an overview of the content of each chapter and identifies key themes and questions shared across chapters. The volume explores the types of relationships that divination created between mortals and gods, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised.
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