The dream seekers: Native American visionary traditions of the Great Plains

"In The Dream Seekers, Lee Irwin demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion." "Irwin draws on 350 visionary dreams from published and unpublished sources that span 150 years to describe the shared features...

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1. Verfasser: Irwin, Lee (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Norman, Okla. u.a. Univ. of Oklahoma Press 1994
Schriftenreihe:The civilization of the American Indian series 213
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Zusammenfassung:"In The Dream Seekers, Lee Irwin demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion." "Irwin draws on 350 visionary dreams from published and unpublished sources that span 150 years to describe the shared features of cosmology for twenty-three groups of Plains Indians. This comprehensive work is not a recital but an understandable exploration of the religious world of Plains Indians." "The different means of acquiring visions that are described include the spontaneous vision experience common among Plains Indian women and means such as stress, illness, social conflict, and mourning used by both men and women to obtain visions. Irwin describes the various stages of the structured male vision quest as well as the central issues of unsuccessful or abandoned quests, threshold experiences during a vision, and the means by which religious empowerment is attained and transferred."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:XII, 306 S.
ISBN:0806126434
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