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Dream interpretation in the psychology of religion: A topic review
JAMES GOLLNICK
Since earliest times, dreams have been associated with religion because they have been understood in nearly all the major religions of the world as a means of divine revelation (Bulkeley 1995; Kelsey 1974). The earliest recorded dreams show that they were seen as part of a religious worldview, either as messages from the gods or as visitations by spirits and the gods themselves. From this perspective, the ancients made sense of dreams not as indicators of the dreamer's psychological state, but as real encounters with the spirit world and the sacred realm. In this essay I shall examine how both of these perspectives on dreams, the ancient religious view and the more recent psychological view, have been treated in the psychology of religion, based on a review of the major English-language texts in the psychology of religion since 1970 and developments in dream research during the last 25 years.
info.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/jrls/sr/issues-full/28.3/gollnick.html
JAMES GOLLNICK
Since earliest times, dreams have been associated with religion because they have been understood in nearly all the major religions of the world as a means of divine revelation (Bulkeley 1995; Kelsey 1974). The earliest recorded dreams show that they were seen as part of a religious worldview, either as messages from the gods or as visitations by spirits and the gods themselves. From this perspective, the ancients made sense of dreams not as indicators of the dreamer's psychological state, but as real encounters with the spirit world and the sacred realm. In this essay I shall examine how both of these perspectives on dreams, the ancient religious view and the more recent psychological view, have been treated in the psychology of religion, based on a review of the major English-language texts in the psychology of religion since 1970 and developments in dream research during the last 25 years.
info.wlu.ca/~wwwpress/jrls/sr/issues-full/28.3/gollnick.html