Politics Of Divination

Author : Joshua Ramey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178348554X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics of Divination written by Joshua Ramey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an interpretation of neoliberal ideology as a political theology of chance that both justifies and dissembles risk-laden market processes as obscure divination tools used both to determine fate and fortune and yet to deny that such determination is taking place by any accountable authority.

Author : Eugene L. Mendonsa
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595128238
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Divination written by Eugene L. Mendonsa and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of Divination, first published in 1982, was a ground breaking work in the political economy of an African culture, the Sisala of Northern Ghana. The author shows how elders use divination as a political tool to control the behavior of women and young men. Gerontocratic control through ritual means is an attempt by elders to dominate the economic activities of youthful men, and the production and reproduction of women. Yet, the elders are not entirely successful in such attempts, and their efforts at social control sometimes have less than altruistic motives, as the many cases in the book show. The author presents divination and ancestral sacrifice in a processual view. Within the context of the divinatory process strategizing elders work and rework the rules of their society to deal with real life situations, illness, misfortune and death. Like many other Africans, the Sisala believe that such misfortunes are ultimatley caused by ancestral anger, which can be seen as a reflection of social tension and conflict among the living. Divination points out deviants in the family who are poised as the cause of such misfortunes, and this conflict is rectified through ancestral propitiation via blood sacrifice on family shrines.

Author : Joshua Alan Ramey
Publisher : Reinventing Critical Theory
ISBN 13 : 9781783485529
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics of Divination written by Joshua Alan Ramey and published by Reinventing Critical Theory. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an interpretation of neoliberal ideology as a political theology of chance that both justifies and dissembles risk-laden market processes as obscure divination tools used both to determine fate and fortune and yet to deny that such determination is taking place by any accountable authority.

Author : Alan Lenzi
Publisher : Society of Biblical Literature
ISBN 13 : 9781589839977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divination, Politics, and Ancient Near Eastern Empires written by Alan Lenzi and published by Society of Biblical Literature. This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advance your understanding of divination’s role in supporting or undermining imperial aspirations in the ancient Near East This collection examines the ways that divinatory texts in the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East undermined and upheld the empires in which the texts were composed, edited, and read. Nine essays and an introduction engage biblical scholarship on the Prophets, Assyriology, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the critical study of Ancient Empires. Features: Interdisciplinary approaches include propaganda studies Essays examine how biblical and other ancient Near Eastern texts were shaped by political and theological empires Index of ancient sources

Author : Barbara Meier
Publisher : Campus Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3593399156
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spirits in Politics written by Barbara Meier and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 4e de couv.: This anthropology addresses persisting questions social anthropologist, historians, and political scientists working in African societies have been confronted with: Do spirits enter the scene after political have failed as a relapse into an allegedly non-modern condition? Or do they precede colonial processes of political transformation, as classis theories of modernization try to establish? The volume seeks to extend the reflections on the relationship of religious phenomena in the socio-political sphere in African societies. It presents case studies which focus on the concepts of modernity, power, and violence, adding the notion of healing to this context and investigating their empirical correlations.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789515700025
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queries to the sungod written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jussi Aro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queries to the Sungod written by Jussi Aro and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Geng Li
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785339958
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate Calculation Experts written by Geng Li and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-03-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having long been stigmatized as an immoral and even illegal “superstition”, the popular practice of divination is experiencing a revival in contemporary China. Fate Calculation Experts explores how diviners attempt to achieve legitimation in a society which identifies strongly with modernity, science, and rationality. As well as associating with modern knowledge production systems, diviners build a positive social image for their occupation via claims to moral authority and appeals to “tradition”. Beyond matters of image management, diviners’ efforts towards legitimation also figure in the social relationships and fundamental cultural values they develop in their practice.

Author : Michael Johnstone
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1398827975
Total Pages : 709 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Divination written by Michael Johnstone and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-28 with total page 709 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since time immemorial, human beings have tried to understand the forces of fate through a variety of imaginative and mystical means. Whether it's reading tea leaves, using tarot or playing cards, palmistry, or crystal ball gazing, the history of fortune-telling is a long and fascinating one. The Book of Divination is the perfect companion for mastering these prophetic arts, presented in an elegant Wibalin bound volume with gilded page edges. Illustrations, diagrams and charts are included to aid you as well as short histories of each divination tradition. Includes: • Tarot • Tea leaf reading • Crystal astrology • I Ching • Numerology • Palmistry • Runes • Prophetic dreaming • Astrology With suggested further reading, this enlightening guide provides a wonderful introduction into divining techniques and makes a perfect gift. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Mystic Archives are beautiful hardcover guides which reveal the hidden mysteries of esoteric arts, presented with foil-embossing, Wibalin binding, patterned endpapers and gilded page edges.

Author : Federico Santangelo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139889360
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Divination, Prediction and the End of the Roman Republic written by Federico Santangelo and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic.