Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Li, Geng

Titel

Divination As An Aspect Of ‘Traditional Culture’

Ist Teil von

• Fate Calculation Experts, 2019, Vol.9, p.89

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United States: Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• As has been discussed, divination in China has been and to some extent is still discredited as a backward superstition purveyed by itinerant, irrational and undereducated practitioners. In more recent times, however, it has often been portrayed widely as a valuable element in ‘traditional culture’ and celebrated as part of the broader national heritage. For centuries, diviners have asserted that the Yijing is the intellectual and philosophical foundation of divination, with Yijing-related scholarship providing an academic underpinning to its practice. In recent years the Yijing has also been used to support the idea of divination as a scientific and materialistic