Kelly Bulkeley (Visiting Scholar, Visiting Scholar, Graduate Theolo

Big Dreams

The Science of Dreaming and the Origins of Religion

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Big Dreams is the first full-scale cognitive scientific analysis of highly memorable dreams, with an original theory about their formation, function, and meaning. The book draws on evidence from religious studies, psychology, anthropology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience to explore how big dreams are a wellspring of religious experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 165mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780199351534
• ISBN-10: 0199351538
• Artikelnr.: 47870248

Autorenporträt

Kelly Bulkeley is a Visiting Scholar at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Section I. Sleep
1. The evolution of sleep
2. The brain's paradoxical activities in sleep
3. The role of sleep in human health and development
4. Cultural practices of sleep through history
Section II. Ordinary Dreaming
5. Dream recall
6. Patterns in form and content
7. Continuities between dreaming and waking life
8. Discontinuities and metaphors
Section III. Big Dreams
9. Aggressive
10. Sexual
11. Gravitational
12. Mystical
Section IV. Religious Experiences
13. Demonic attack
14. Prophetic vision
15. Ritual healing
16. Contemplative practice
Conclusion
Appendix: Word search methods in the study of dreams
Index