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'It's like these scientists own the rains': indigenous knowledge, disaster warnings, and the politics of legitimacy in Malawi. [PDF]
DisastersAbstract This study examines the declining use of indigenous knowledge (IK) in early warning systems for climate‐related disasters in Malawi, drawing on qualitative data from four disaster‐prone districts and national‐level institutions. While IK is frequently referenced in policy discourse and programmatic frameworks, its practical integration into ...
Kita SM.
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When Rituals Fail: Rationalization, Bayesianism, and Predictive Processing. [PDF]
Evol AnthropolABSTRACT Why do rituals persist in human societies despite their frequent and observable failures to produce intended outcomes? This paper advances a two‐part argument to explain this resilience. First, at the individual level, I argue that belief in ritual efficacy is maintained through Bayesian‐rational processes, where the invocation of auxiliary ...
Hong Z.
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Genus, 2020 This paper examines astrology, a concept that is considered unscientific by broad segments of the population in the western world. Despite this, astrology remains for some an important source for advice regarding choices in a range of different matters ...
Jonas Helgertz, Kirk Scott
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Experientia, 1988 As a divinatory practice, astrology is without equal in both its colorful history and modern day popularity. Astrology has grown, over thousands of years, into a huge and ornate superstructure that lacks a central design. Although astrology has been dimly veiled by its occult mystique for centuries, the light of modern day inquiry has shown its ...
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Forståelsen af begreberne skæbne og fri vilje i moderne vestlig astrologi
Religionsvidenskabeligt Tidsskrift, 1999 "Destiny, Free Will and Astrology". The relation between destiny and free will has, since Augustine, been crucial in the theological and philosophical approach to astrology and has led to the accusation that astrology represents pure fatalism.
Iben Egekvist Krogsdal
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Aestimatio, 2023 : This exciting collection of articles was a result of a 2015 conference by the same name, “Ptolemy’s Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages”, sponsored by the Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus (PAL).
Elizabeth Hamm
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Augustine on fate and astrology revisited [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical AnnualIn De civitate Dei V,1-11 revaluating Stoic fate, Augustine develops a new understanding of fate which is changed from Stoic rational order to a voluntary order attributed to the will of God and eternally spoken by God.
Andoková Marcela
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Herbs as pharmaka: between Medicine, Astrology and Magic
Studia Ceranea, 2023 In the ancient and Byzantine world, natural elements were used to cure a certain disease, as attested by traditional medical sources such as Hippocrates, Dioscorides and Galen. However, the therapeutic properties of these substances are also described in
Giulia Freni
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Synchronicity in Post‐Jungian Astrology: A Cosmological Quest [PDF]
J Anal PsycholAbstract Jung promoted the idea of synchronicity in 1928, in the context of discussing the Chinese way of thinking. From 1928 to 1951, Jung’s informal formulations led to more than one understanding of synchronicity. He even tried to apply synchronicity to an astrological experiment.
Jingchao Zeng, Nathan Fraikin
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Astrologie alchemiche: Ermetismi in transizione e culture occidentali
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2017 Alchemy is the “sacred art” of the transmutation of metals or human beings, and often these two tendencies are expressed together in an allegorical mode infused with an astrological imager reflecting their mystical nature.
Ezio Albrile
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