Seeing With Different Eyes
Seeing with Different Eyes (eds. Patrick Curry and Angela Voss, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) represents the cutting edge of contemporary thought and research on divination. The thirteen authors come from a variety of academic disciplines, ranging from anthropology and classics to English literature and religious studies, and all address the question of divination, astrology and oracles in a spirit of critical but sympathetic enquiry. The emphasis is on a participatory and reflexive approach which is firmly post-positivist, seeking to understand the divinatory act on its own terms within widely varying contexts.
Contents
Patrick Curry Introduction ; Peter T. Struck ‘A World full of Signs: Understanding Divination in Ancient Stoicism’; Algis Uzdavinys ‘Chaldean Divination and the Ascent to Heaven’; Crystal Addey ‘Oracles, Dreams and Astrology in Iamblichus’ De mysteriis’; Gregory Shaw ‘Living Light: An Exploration of Divine Embodiment’; Garry Phillipson ‘Theurgy in Theravadan Buddhism’; Ann Jeffers ‘Nor by dreams nor by Urim, nor by prophets: the Story of the Woman at the Well in I Samuel’; Angela Voss ‘The Power of a Melancholy Humour: Divination and Divine Tears’; Anthony W. Johnson ‘Four Faces of Apollo: Divination, Music, Cosmology and Healing in Ben Jonson’s Masque of Augurs (1622)’; Marilynn Lawrence ‘A Phenomenological approach to Astrology: Thinking of Astrology at the end of Metaphysics’; Geoffrey Cornelius ‘The Unique Case of Interpretation: Explorations in the Epistemology of Astrology’; Johann Friedrich Wolfgang Hasler ‘The Chance Game of Divining? The Case of the Enochian Chess of the Golden Dawn and its use in Divination’; Dennis Tedlock ‘Mind, Body and Cosmos in Mayan Divination’; Barbara Tedlock ‘Sacred Connections between Self, Other and the World: The Emergence of Integrative Medicine’.