a) Buddhism and Prognostication
Divination in Buddhist Theory and Practice
Prof. Zhou Qi
October 2009 – October 2010
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Buddhist Ritual and Philosophy Responding to a Prognostic Imperative? Transmission, Divinatory Sutras and the Figure of Ouyi Zhixu 蕅益智旭 (1599-1655)
Esther-Maria Guggenmos
b) Fate and Freedom in the Islamic World
Concepts of Time and Destiny in the Koran and Prophecy, Politics and Astrology in a Pseudo-platonic Text of the 10th century CE
Georges Tamer
c) Christian Responses to Chinese Mantic Practices
The case of Adam Schall: Between Accommodation, Superstition, and Accusation. The European Controversy about the Chinese Calendar Office
Claudia von Collani
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Studying the Past to Decode the Future: Jesuits' Criticism to Chinese Prognostications
Chu Pingyi
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d) Taoism and Prognostication
Daoist Attitudes Toward Mantic Practices
Terry Frederick Kleeman
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Prognostication and fate in the Taiping jing: An interpretative anthology of translated and annotated primary sources.
Barbara Hendrischke
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Cosmology and Prognostication in the Apocrypha: A Survey of Major Sources and Themes
Fabrizio Pregadio
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e) Sacrality
Sacrality and Sacralization in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age. Intercultural Perspectives in Europe and Asia
Project funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
f) Miracle and Magic
(Klaus Herbers)
g) Hagiographies
(Klaus Herbers, Ángel Gómez Moreno)