divination: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
William Barrett and Theodore Besterman, The Divining Rod: An Experimental and Psychological Investigation (1926, reissued 1968), with a bibliography of water divining; William Bascom, Ifa Divination: Communication Between Gods and Men in West Africa (1969); Auguste Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans l’antiquité, 4 vol. (1879–82, reprinted 1975), a classic work; Henry Callaway, The Religious System of the Amazulu (1870, reissued 1970), with an analysis of their divinatory practices; André Caquot and Marcel Leibovici, La Divination: études recueillies, 2 vol. (1968), by specialists in many fields; Georges Dumézil, Archaic Roman Religion, 2 vol. (1970; originally published in French, 1966), with an appendix on the religion of the Etruscans; Robert Flacelière, Greek Oracles, 2nd ed. (1976; originally published in French, 1961); William A. Lessa, Chinese Body Divination: Its Forms, Affinities and Functions (1968); Michael Loewe and Carmen Blacker (eds.), Divination and Oracles (1981), nine studies covering the ancient and Oriental worlds; René de Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Oracles and Demons of Tibet: The Cult and Iconography of the Tibetan Protective Deities (1956, reprinted 1976); Victor W. Turner, Ndembu Divination: Its Symbolism & Techniques (1961, reprinted 1969); Evon Z. Vogt and Ray Hyman, Water Witching, U.S.A., 2nd ed. (1979), an ethnographic study; and Helmut Wilhelm, Change: Eight Lectures on the I-Ching (1960, reprinted 1973; originally published in German, 1944), studies of Chinese divination.
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| Modified link of Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - Divination. | Aug 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Kenyon College - Department of Religious Studies - Divination as Spiritual Practice in Song Confucianism (PDF). | Jan 01, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pressbooks@MSL - The Bright Continent: African Art History - Art and Divination. | Jun 05, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Divination and Religion as a Cultural System. | Nov 03, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Learn Religions - Methods of Divination. | Aug 25, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: JewishEncyclopedia.com - Divination. | Jul 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: MLibrary Digital Collections - The Encyclopedia of Diderot and d'Alembart - Divination. | Jun 02, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Encyclopaedia Iranica - Divination. | Apr 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia - Divination. | Feb 28, 2023 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 16, 2001 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |