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Fate Calculation Experts

Fate Calculation Experts
Author: Geng Li
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 158
Release: 2019-03-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1785339958

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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.


Chinese Mathematical Astrology

Chinese Mathematical Astrology
Author: Ho Peng Yoke
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2004-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 113443068X

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Though there are a number of well-written works on Chinese divination, there are none that deal with the three sophisticated devices that were employed by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau in the eleventh century and for hundreds of years thereafter. Chinese experts applied the methods associated with these devices to both weather forecasting and to the interpretation of human affairs. Hidden by a veil of secrecy, these methods have always been relatively little known other than by their names. The first work in any language to explore these three methods, known as sanshi (three cosmic boards), this book sheds light on a topic which has been shrouded in mystery for centuries, having been kept secret for many years by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau.


The Art of Fate Calculation

The Art of Fate Calculation
Author: Stéphanie Homola
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 318
Release: 2023-01-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800738137

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From housewives to students and high-ranking officials, people from all social backgrounds in China and Taiwan visit fate calculation masters to learn about their destiny. How do clients assess the diviner’s skills? How does one become a fortune-teller? How is a person’s fate calculated? The Art of Fate Calculation explores how conceptions of fate circulate in Chinese and Taiwanese societies while resisting uniformization and institutionalization. This is not only due to the stigma of “superstition” but also to the internal dynamic of fate calculation practice and learning.


Religion and the Morality of the Market

Religion and the Morality of the Market
Author: Daromir Rudnyckyj
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2017-03-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1316949397

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Since the collapse of the Berlin Wall, there has been a widespread affirmation of economic ideologies that conceive the market as an autonomous sphere of human practice, holding that market principles should be applied to human action at large. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, the ascendance of market reason has been countered by calls for reforms of financial markets and for the consideration of moral values in economic practice. This book intervenes in these debates by showing how neoliberal market practices engender new forms of religiosity, and how religiosity shapes economic actions. It reveals how religious movements and organizations have reacted to the increasing prominence of market reason in unpredictable, and sometimes counterintuitive, ways. Using a range of examples from different countries and religious traditions, the book illustrates the myriad ways in which religious and market moralities are closely imbricated in diverse global contexts.


Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China

Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China
Author: Michael Lackner
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 570
Release: 2022-05-20
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9004514260

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The first book that systematically explores the manifold aspects of divination and prognostication in traditional and modern China.


Temple Tracks

Temple Tracks
Author: Vineeta Sinha
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 346
Release: 2023
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1805390163

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The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion. In Malaysia and Singapore, evidence of religion-making and railway-building from a colonial past is visible in multiple modes and media as memories, recollections and 'traces'.


Visions of Marriage

Visions of Marriage
Author: Hsiao-Chiao Chiu
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2023-07-14
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800738889

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Grounded in multi-generational stories from Kinmen in Taiwan, Visions of Marriage explores the historical entanglements between the pursuit of new personal and national futures. Focusing on the relational and future-making aspects of marriage, the ethnography highlights the intersection of transformations across familial generations and shifting political economies in Taiwan, and more globally. While theories of modernity often treat marriage as an index of social change, without adequate attention to its transformative capacities generated through personal and familial agency, this volume provides comparative insights on family change and demographic shifts in Asia.


The Yijing: a Guide

The Yijing: a Guide
Author: Joseph A. Adler
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0190072458

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"This book is a concise introduction to the Scripture of Change, or Yijing (formerly spelled I Ching), for general readers, practitioners of divination, students, and non-specialist scholars. Sometimes called the Book of Changes or Classic of Changes, this ancient Chinese text, with roots going back about three thousand years, has traditionally been considered the most profound of the Chinese "classics." Originally a manual of divination, in the late 1st millennium BCE it accumulated appendices, traditionally attributed to Confucius, that transformed it into a uniquely Chinese expression of wisdom. Through the centuries it has inspired countless commentaries, mostly in China but also throughout East Asia. Since the 20th century it has gained global popularity for both its use in divination and its contribution to the world's wisdom literature"--


Stories from an Ancient Land

Stories from an Ancient Land
Author: Magnus Fiskesjö
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-08-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789208882

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Cosmic Coherence

Cosmic Coherence
Author: William Matthews
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800732694

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Humans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world – theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China. Diviners explain the cosmos in terms of a single substance, qi, unfolding across scales of increasing complexity to create natural phenomena and human experience. Combined with an understanding of human cognition, it shows how this conception of scale offers a new way for anthropologists and other social scientists to think about cosmology, comparison and cultural difference.