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 : Federico Santangelo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107244862
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( 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 Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the intersection between Roman politics, culture and divination in the late Republic. It discusses how the practice of divination changed at a time of great political and social change and explores the evidence for a critical reflection and debate on the limits of divination and prediction in the second and first centuries BC. Divination was a central feature in the workings of the Roman government and this book explores the ways in which it changed under the pressure of factors of socio-political complexity and disruption. It discusses the ways in which the problem of the prediction of the future is constructed in the literature of the period. Finally, it explores the impact that the emergence of the Augustan regime had on the place of divination in Rome and the role that divinatory themes had in shaping the ideology of the new regime.

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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 : 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.

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 : J. P. F. Wynne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107070481
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cicero on the Philosophy of Religion written by J. P. F. Wynne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do the gods love you? Cicero gives deep and surprising answers in two philosophical dialogues on traditional Roman religion.