Book Series
Prognostication in History
How has man dealt in daily practice with the uncertainty intrinsic to the future? Prognostication in History is a peer-reviewed, international book series that investigates the concepts, techniques and practices and their development in different societies and in different periods. Its main focus is on Asia and Europe.
Prognostication in all its forms is an extremely diverse anthropological phenomenon, which so far has been understudied in the Humanities. The book series approaches the topic from a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary perspective, aiming to both broaden specific knowledge and enhance critical reflection. Published in close cooperation with the International Society for the Critical Study of Divination, it builds on the work of the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities at Erlangen University on “Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication – Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe”, thus providing a platform for scholars world-wide to present and connect their research on a subject of ever-growing importance for a wide variety of disciplines.
View the book series at Brill.
Editorial Board
Prof. Michael Lackner, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Prof. Klaus Herbers, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Prof. Chang Chia-Feng, National Taiwan University
Prof. Alexander Fidora, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Volumes
Communicating with the Gods
Matthias Schumann and Elena Valussi
The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes
Edward L. Shaughnessy
Dreams, Nature, and Practices as Signs of the Future in the Middle Ages
Klaus Herbers and Hans-Christian Lehner
The Other Yijing
Tze-ki Hon
Dice and Gods on the Silk Road
Brandon Dotson, Constance A. Cook, and Zhao Lu
The End(s) of Time(s)
Hans-Christian Lehner
Unveiling the Hidden—Anticipating the Future
Josefina Rodríguez-Arribas and Dorian Gieseler Greenbaum
Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination
Michael Lackner, Kwok-kan Tam, Monika Gänssbauer, and Terry Siu Han Yip
Chinese Character Manipulation in Literature and Divination
Anne Kathrin Schmiedl
Glimpses of Tibetan Divination
Petra Maurer, Donatella Rossi, and Rolf Scheuermann
Divining with Achi and Tārā
Translated an introduced by Jan-Ulrich Sobisch; with contributions by Solvej Nielsen
