The wilderness of dreams: exploring the religious meanings of dreams in modern western culture

This interdisciplinary study of the religious dimensions of dreams shows how modern dream research supports and enriches our understanding of religiously meaningful dreams

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1. Verfasser: Bulkeley, Kelly (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Albany State Univ. of New York Press 1994
Schriftenreihe:SUNY series in dream studies
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Zusammenfassung:This interdisciplinary study of the religious dimensions of dreams shows how modern dream research supports and enriches our understanding of religiously meaningful dreams
The Wilderness of Dreams does four things that no other work on dreams has done. First, it surveys the whole range of modern dream research - not just the work of depth psychologists and neuroscientists, but also the findings of anthropologists, content analysts, cognitive psychologists, creative artists, and lucid dreaming researchers. Second, it draws upon new advances in hermeneutic philosophy in order to clarify basic questions about how to interpret dreams
Third, it develops a careful, well-grounded notion of religious meaning - the "root metaphor" concept - to show that seeking religious meanings in dreams is not mere superstition. And fourth, the book reflects on the question of why modern Westerners are so interested in affirming, or debunking, the idea that dreams have religious meanings
Beschreibung:XIII, 309 S.
ISBN:079141745X
0791417468

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