The Enquirer S Oracle Or What To Do And How To Do It

Author : Enquirer
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1354881362

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The Enquirer's Oracle by Enquirer Pdf

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Author : Enquirer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600079393

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The enquirer's oracle: or, What to do and how to do it by Enquirer Pdf

Author : Michael Abramowitz
Publisher : Michael Abramowitz
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780992559649

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Physical Spirituality by Michael Abramowitz Pdf

Could divinity be a this-worldly rather than an other-worldly phenomenon? Could we find all the splendour of our spiritual imaginations right here in our physical reality? Science has given humanity a new perspective of the cosmos but we have yet to make the leap of imagination that would let that perspective come alive with spiritual potentials. This book explores for spiritual possibilities that do not resort to outlandish dimensions or unrealistic pantheons, with surprising results. It answers some long-standing questions - such as why spirituality is so thoroughly hidden - and provides a valuable foundation for modern spiritual seekers questing through psychedelics. Though grounded in physics, the book is accessible to all. It offers an understanding of spirituality commensurate with today's notions of consciousness and technology.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 842 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11516750

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Publishers' circular and booksellers' record by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jon D. Mikalson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781444358193

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Ancient Greek Religion by Jon D. Mikalson Pdf

Ancient Greek Religion provides an introduction to the fundamental beliefs, practices, and major deities of Greek religion. Focuses on Athens in the classical period Includes detailed discussion of Greek gods and heroes, myth and cult, and vivid descriptions of Greek religion as it was practiced Ancient texts are presented in boxes to promote thought and discussion, and abundant illustrations help readers visualize the rich and varied religious life of ancient Greece Revised edition includes additional boxed texts and bibliography, an 8-page color plate section, a new discussion of the nature of Greek “piety,” and a new chapter on Greek Religion and Greek Culture

Author : Crystal Addey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317148999

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Divination and Theurgy in Neoplatonism by Crystal Addey Pdf

Why did ancient philosophers consult oracles, write about them, and consider them to be an important part of philosophical thought and practice? This book explores the extensive links between oracles and philosophy in Late Antiquity, particularly focusing on the roles of oracles and other forms of divination in third and fourth century CE Neoplatonism. Examining some of the most significant debates between pagan philosophers and Christian intellectuals on the nature of oracles as a central yet contested element of religious tradition, Addey focuses particularly on Porphyry's Philosophy from Oracles and Iamblichus' De Mysteriis - two works which deal extensively with oracles and other forms of divination. This book argues for the significance of divination within Neoplatonism and offers a substantial reassessment of oracles and philosophical works and their relationship to one another. With a broad interdisciplinary approach, encompassing Classics, Ancient Philosophy, Theology, Religious Studies and Ancient History, Addey draws on recent anthropological and religious studies research which has challenged and re-evaluated the relationship between rationality and ritual.

Author : Joseph Fontenrose
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520370296

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The Delphic Oracle by Joseph Fontenrose Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978.

Author : Nigel Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136787997

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Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece by Nigel Wilson Pdf

Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.

Author : Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192571281

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Roman Republican Augury by Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy Pdf

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 aspects (especially its place in defining, structuring, and circumscribing the precise constitutional powers of magistrates), or upon its role in maintaining and perpetuating Roman social and political structures (primarily as a tool of the elite). This volume makes a new and original contribution to the study of Roman religion, theology, politics, and cultural history by challenging the prevailing view that official divination was organized to produce only the results its users wanted, and focusing instead upon what it can tell us about how the Romans understood their relationship with their gods. Rather than supposing that augury, like other forms of Roman public divination, told Romans what they wanted to hear, it argues that augury in both theory and practice left space for perceived expressions of divine will which contradicted human wishes, and that its rules and precepts did not allow human beings simply to create or ignore signs at will. Analysis of the historical evidence for Romans receiving, and heeding, signs which would seem to have conflicted with their own desires allows the Jupiter whom they approached in augury to emerge as not simply a source of power to be tapped and channelled to human ends, but as a person with his own interests and desires, which did not always overlap with those of his human enquirers. When human and divine will clashed, it was the will of Jupiter, not that of the man consulting him, 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.

Author : Hugh Bowden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0521823730

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Classical Athens and the Delphic Oracle by Hugh Bowden Pdf

The Delphic Oracle was where, according to Greek tradition, Apollo would speak through his priestesses. This work explores the importance placed on consultations at Delphi by Athenians in the city's age of democracy. It demonstrates the extent to which concern to do the will of the gods affected Athenian politics, challenging the notion that Athenian democracy may be seen as a model for modern secular democratic constitutions. All the known consultations of the oracle by Athens in the period before 300 BC are examined, and descriptions of consultations found in Attic tragedy and comedy are discussed. This work provides a new account of how the Delphic oracle functioned and presents a thorough analysis of the relationship between the Athenians and the oracle, making it essential reading both for students of the oracle itself and of Athenian democracy.

Author : Matthew Dillon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317148968

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Omens and Oracles by Matthew Dillon Pdf

Addressing the role which divination played in ancient Greek society, this volume deals with various forms of prophecy and how each was utilised and for what purpose. Chapters bring together key types of divining, such as from birds, celestial phenomena, the entrails of sacrificed animals and dreams. Oracular centres delivered prophetic pronouncements to enquirers, but in addition, there were written collections of oracles in circulation. Many books were available on how to interpret dreams, the birds and entrails, and divination as a religious phenomenon attracted the attention of many writers. Expert diviners were at the heart of Greek prophecy, whether these were Apollo’s priestesses delivering prose or verse answers to questions put to them by consultants, diviners known as manteis, who interpreted entrails and omens, the chresmologoi, who sang the many oracles circulating orally or in writing, or dream interpreters. Divination was utilised not only to foretell the future but also to ensure that the individual or state employing divination acted in accordance with that divinely prescribed future; it was employed by all and had a crucial role to play in what courses of action both states and individuals undertook. Specific attention is paid in this volume not only to the ancient written evidence, but to that of inscriptions and papyri, with emphasis placed on the iconography of Greek divination.

Author : Barry S. Gower,Michael C. Stokes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429832772

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Socratic Questions by Barry S. Gower,Michael C. Stokes Pdf

This book, first published in 1992, introduces some of Socrates’ problems and some of the problems about him. It seeks at the same time to advance new views, arguments and information on Socrates’ mission, techniques, ethics and later reception. From civil disobedience to ethics, this collection provides stimulating discussions of Socrates’ life, thought and historical significance.

Author : Jan N. Bremmer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134768226

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The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife by Jan N. Bremmer Pdf

Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop? In this fascinating, learned, but highly readable book, Jan N. Bremmer - one of the foremost authorities on ancient religion - takes a fresh look at the major developments in the Western imagination of the afterlife, from the ancient Greeks to the modern near-death experience.

Author : Robin J. Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780415454827

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Essays on Pedagogy by Robin J. Alexander Pdf

In Essays on Pedagogy, Robin Alexander brings together some of his most powerful writing, drawing on his research in Britain and other countries over the past two decades.

Author : Robin Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136027901

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Essays on Pedagogy by Robin Alexander Pdf

Seven authoritative contributions to the emerging field of pedagogy and to comparative, cultural and policy studies in education. A must for those who want to do more than merely comply with received versions of ‘best practice’. Pedagogy is at last gaining the attention in English-speaking countries which it has long enjoyed elsewhere. But is it the right kind of attention? Do we still tend to equate pedagogy with teaching technique and little more? Now that governments, too, have become interested in it, is pedagogy a proper matter for public policy and official prescription? In Essays on Pedagogy, Robin Alexander brings together some of his most powerful recent writing, drawing on research undertaken in Britain and other countries, to illustrate his view that to engage properly with pedagogy we need to apply cultural, historical and international perspectives, as well as evidence on how children most effectively learn and teachers most productively teach. The book includes chapters on a number of themes, expertly woven together: the politicisation of school and classroom life and the trend towards a pedagogy of compliance; the benefits and hazards of international comparison; pedagogical dichotomies old and new, and how to avoid them; how education and pedagogy might respond to a world in peril; the rare and special chemistry of the personal and the professional which produces outstanding teaching; the scope and character of pedagogy itself, as a field of enquiry and action. For those who see teachers as thinking professionals, rather than as technicians who merely comply with received views of ‘best practice’, this book will open minds while maintaining a practical focus. For student teachers it will provide a framework for their development. Its strong and consistent international perspective will be of interest to educational comparativists, but is also an essential response to globalisation and the predicaments now facing humanity as a whole.