The Wilderness of Dreams

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