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Die Abhandlung unterstreicht, wie vielfältig und wichtig den Menschen im Mittelalter auch die Sorge um ihre Zukunft war. Dabei standen Verfahren der Prognostik ? die in der Antike sehr gängig waren ? seit den Kirchenvätern in der Kritik christlicher Autoren. Die Studie verfolgt unter anderem die sich daraus entwickelnden rechtlichen Verbote normativer Texte und lotet so die praktische Bedeutung der Prognostik genauer aus. Gleichzeitig werden damit Forschungsfelder des geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschungskollegs "Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa" vorgestellt. Wenn auch göttlicher Wille und Heilsgeschichte, philosophische Ratio und Verfahren der Nigromantik in der Gesellschaft des Mittelalters oft nebeneinander zu stehen scheinen, so spielten auch in einer Gesellschaft, deren Zukunft nur vom göttlichen Heilsplan abhängig schien, die verschiedenen Verfahren der Prognostik eine eminent wichtige Rolle.

Divination --- Astrology --- Horoscopy --- Astronomy, Medieval --- Occultism --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Worship --- History

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Stories have traditionally been classified as epics, myths, sagas, legends, folk tales, fairy tales, parables or fables. However, the definitions of the terms have a tendency to overlap, making it difficult to classify and categorize material. For this reason, a case can be made for the introduction of a new genre, termed the shamanic story - a story that has either been based on or inspired by a shamanic journey (a numinous experience in non-ordinary reality) or one that contains a number of...

Shamanism. --- Shamanism in literature. --- Divination. --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Religions

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Divination --- -Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- Ugarit (Extinct city) --- -Religion --- -Ugarit (Extinct city) --- Augury --- Religion.

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Roman Republican Augury : Freedom and Control proposes a new way of understanding augury, a form of Roman state divination designed to consult the god Jupiter. Previous scholarly studies of augury have tended to focus either upon its legal-constitutional effects or upon its role in maintaining and perpetuating Roman social and political structures. This volume makes a new contribution to the study of Roman religion, politics, and cultural history by focusing instead upon what augury can tell us about how Romans understood their relationship with their gods. Augury is often thought to have told Romans what they wanted to hear. This volume argues that augury left space for perceived expressions of divine will which contradicted human wishes, and that its rules and precepts did not permit human beings to create or ignore signs at will. This analysis allows the Jupiter whom Romans approached in augury to emerge as not simply a source of power to be channelled to human ends, but a person with his own interests and desires, which did not always overlap with those of his human enquirers. When human will and divine will clashed, it was the will of Jupiter which was supposed to prevail. In theory as in practice, it was the Romans, not their supreme god, who were bound by the auguries and auspices

Divination --- Divination. --- Rome (Empire). --- Gods, Roman. --- History. --- Jupiter --- Rome --- Religion. --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship --- E-books

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This volume examines the phenomena of ancient Greek prophecy and divination. With contributions from a distinguished, international cast of scholars, it offers fresh perspectives and interpretations of key aspects of these practices. Considering issues such as comparativism, ethnography, cognitive function, orality, and intertextuality, the volume demonstrates their relevance to the elucidation of Greek prophetic practices. The volume also shows how multi- and inter-disciplinary approaches can be applied to a range of topics, from an examination of the very inception of Greek divination, explored within the frame of more archaic cult ideas, through emic elaboration of divinatory practice in Archaic and Classical periods, to consideration of intentional manipulation of prophecy, as depicted in Hellenistic and Imperial Roman sources. Collectively, the essays deepen our understanding of ancient Greek prophecy by offering insights into divinition astéhknē, the centrality or marginality of Delphi and the Pythic priestess, prophetic ambiguity, and cognition, including cognitive dissonance.

Divination --- History --- Greece --- Religious life and customs. --- Augury --- Soothsaying --- Occultism --- Worship