Roy Willis, Patrick Curry

Astrology, Science and Culture

Pulling down the Moon

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Mainstream science has long dismissed astrology as a form of primitive superstition, despite or perhaps even because of its huge popular interest.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 256mm x 146mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9781859736821
• ISBN-10: 1859736823
• Artikelnr.: 22110187

Autorenporträt

Roy Willis Emeritus Fellow in Social Anthropology,University of Edinburgh Patrick Curry Associate Lecturer, Bath Spa University College

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Astral Science before History
2. The Sky as Mirror
3. Actors on the Celestial Stage
4. The Astrological Story
5. Divination and the Stars
6. Varieties of Astrological Experience
7. Disenchantment - and Re-enchantment
8. Science and Astrology
9. Divination Today
10. Minding the Heavens
11. Conversing with the Stars
Appendix
Bibliography
Index