Dreaming in the World's Religions: A Comparative HistoryNYU Press, 2008 M07 19 - 345 páginas From Biblical stories of Joseph interpreting Pharoh’s dreams in Egypt to prayers against bad dreams in the Hindu Rg Veda, cultures all over the world have seen their dreams first and foremost as religiously meaningful experiences. In this widely shared view, dreams are a powerful medium of transpersonal guidance offering the opportunity to communicate with sacred beings, gain valuable wisdom and power, heal suffering, and explore new realms of existence. Conversely, the world’s religious and spiritual traditions provide the best source of historical information about the broad patterns of human dream life |
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... faith centered on ancient collections of knowledge ( Vedas ) that were orally transmitted through the generations , recited in poetic verses ( mantras ) whose spiritual potency emanated from the sacred sound ( brahman ) of the words ...
... faith based on the relatively recent revelations of a single man , recorded in a fixed written text . Two more different religious traditions could hardly be imagined . However , the one area where they found common ground was in the ...
... of the West , denounced the decadence of Anglicized Indians , and insisted on the need for a purified Hindu faith grounded in ancestral teachings and practices . These turbulent religious cross-currents created the conditions for an ...
... teaching a rationalist Brahmanic monotheism that was claimed to be fully compatible with Enlightenment - era Western Christianity . Tagore ( whose son , Rabindranath , became a Nobel prize- winning poet ) did not come to this faith easily.
A Comparative History Kelly Bulkeley. winning poet ) did not come to this faith easily ; he had painful personal experience of the tension between the forces of modernization and traditional Hinduism , and it took a dream to help him ...
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Chinese Religions | |
Buddhism | |
Christianity 7 Islam | |
Religions of Africa | |
Religions of Oceania | |
Religions of the Americas | |
Conclusion | |
Notes | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |
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