A Sociology of Tarot
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2609687 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mike Sosteric (0000-0002-1707-9662, Athabasca University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 357-392 |
| Publication date | 2014-07-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Canadian Journal of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0318-6431 • E-ISSN: 1710-1123 |
| Publisher | University of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.29173/cjs20000 |
| OpenAlex | W1895846782 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 35 |
This article attempts to establish a sociology of the occult in general, and a sociology of the Western tarot in particular. The tarot is a deck of 78 cards invented in Italy in the fifteenth century. From humble beginnings as a device for gaming or gambling, the tarot became invested with occult, mystical, divine, spiritual, and even psychological significance. This investing became part of a larger strategy of discipline and indoctrination to ease the transition from preindustrial structures of power and authority to industrial and bureaucratic structures. That tarot, associated as it was with the emergence of elite Freemasonry, helped provide new ideologies of power and ways of existing within new tightly structured, bureaucratic organizations
Bureaucracy · Elite · Ideology · Indoctrination · Mysticism · Occult · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Law · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Religious Tourism and Spaces
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The elementary forms of the religious life
The Radical Enlightenment
The Desecularization of the World
Studies In The Development Of Capitalism
The Teachings of Don Juan
Religious Movements in Contemporary America
The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
Transforming ourselves/transforming curriculum
Tarot images and spiritual education
Survival of occult practices and ideas in modern common sense
Discipline and Punish
William James and psychical research
Freemasonry and psychiatry in Poland
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
The Sociology of Religion
Religion, cultural studies and New Age sacralization of everyday life
Symbolism of the Tower as Abjection1
Interpreting the signs of the times
Sándor Ferenczi and the problem of telepathy
The Mythology of the Secret Societies
Occultism, Race and Politics in German-speaking Europe, 1880—1940
Adorno and the disenchantment of nature
The Celtic Tarot and the Secret Tradition
A theory of human motivation
The Genesis of Freemasonry
Re-Symbolization of the Self
The Jester and the Madman, Heralds of Liberty and Truth
The Consumption of Astrology in Contemporary Society
Spirits and Scientists
Sociology of Secret Societies
Logics of Political Secrecy
The Sociology of Contemporary Religious Movements
Social Meanings of the Occult
The Protestant Ethic Revisited
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |