Coping with the future : theories and practices of divination in East Asia / edited by Michael Lackner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lackner, Michael, 1953- editor.

Series:

Sinica Leidensia ; 0169-9563 Volume 138.

Sinica Leidensia ; Volume 138

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Divination--South Asia.

Divination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 586 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Summary:

Coping with the Future: Theories and Practices of Divination in East Asia offers insights into various techniques of divination, their evolution, and their assessment. The contributions cover the period from the earliest documents on East Asian mantic arts to their appearance in the present time. The volume reflects the pervasive manifestations of divination in literature, religious and political life, and their relevance for society and individuals. Special emphasis is placed on cross-cultural influences and attempts to find theoretical foundations for divinatory practices. This edited volume is an initiative to study the phenomena of divination across East Asian cultures and beyond. It is also one of the first attempts to theorize divinatory practices through East Asian traditions.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Michael Lackner

1 A Recently Published Shanghai Museum Bamboo Manuscript on Divination / Marco Caboara

2 Hexagrams and Prognostication in the Weishu Literature: The Thirty-Two-Year Cycle of the Qian zuo du / Bent Nielsen

3 The Representation of Mantic Arts in the High Culture of Medieval China / Paul W. Kroll

4 Divination, Fate Manipulation, and Protective Knowledge in and around The Wedding of the Duke of Zhou and Peach Blossom Girl, a Popular Myth of Late Imperial China / Vincent Durand-Dastès

5 A List of Magic and Mantic Practices in the Buddhist Canon / Esther-Maria Guggenmos

6 The Allegorical Cosmos: The Shi 式 Board in Medieval Taoist and Buddhist Sources / Dominic Steavu

7 Divining Hail: Deities, Energies, and Tantra on the Tibetan Plateau / Anne C. Klein

8 Early Chinese Divination and Its Rhetoric / Martin Kern

9 Choosing Auspicious Dates and Sites for Royal Ceremonies in Eighteenth-century Korea / Kwon Soo Park

10 Exploring the Mandates of Heaven: Wen Tianxiang’s Concepts of Fate and Mantic Knowledge / Hsien-huei Liao

11 Chŏng Yak-yong on Yijing Divination / Yung Sik Kim

12 From Jianghu to Liumang: Working Conditions and Cultural Identity of Wandering Fortune-Tellers in Contemporary China / Stéphanie Homola

13 Women and Divination in Contemporary Korea / Jennifer Jung-Kim

14 Translation and Adaption: The Continuous Interplay between Chinese Astrology and Foreign Culture / Che-Chia Chang

15 Against Prognostication: Ferdinand Verbiest’s Criticisms of Chinese Mantic Arts / Pingyi Chu

16 Contradictory Forms of Knowledge? Divination and Western Knowledge in Late Qing and Early Republican China / Fan Li and Michael Lackner

17 Western Horoscopic Astrology in Korea / Yong Hoon Jun

18 How to Quantify the Value of Domino Combinations? Divination and Shifting Rationalities in Late Imperial China / Andrea Bréard

19 Correlating Time Within One’s Hand: The Use of Temporal Variables in Early Modern Japanese “Chronomancy” Techniques / Matthias Hayek

20 The Physical Shape Theory of Fengshui in China and Korea / Sanghak Oh

Index / Michael Lackner.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-35678-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004356788 DOI