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The dreams and visions of Aelius Aristides : a case-study in the history of religions /

An analysis of the religious experiences of the Greco-Roman sophist, Aelius Aristides. As a member of the cult of Asclepius, Aristides recorded his nocturnal dreams, waking visions and spiritual healings in a diary entitled the Sacred Tales. A study of this diary sheds light on the spiritual environ...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Stephens, John, 1951- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2013.
Colección:Perspectives on philosophy and religious thought ; 10.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a ""Cover""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part One: Religio-Historical Considerations""; ""Chapter 1: Aristides and His Book of Dreams""; ""Introduction""; ""The Nature of Religious Experience""; ""Reasons for the Study of Individual Religious Experience""; ""Aristides' Dream-Diary: The Sacred Tales""; ""Aristides' Ancient Biographers""; ""Aristides' Modern Biographers""; ""Methodological Questions""; ""Chapter 2: The Literary Dimension of the Text""; ""Aristides: An Example of Homo Religious""; ""The Sacred Tales and Ancient Autobiography"" 
505 8 |a ""Ancient Visionary Literature""""Chapter 3: The Problem of Individuality in the Sacred Tales: Comparing the Sacred Tales with Other Selected Ancient Christian and Pagan Autobiographical Doocuments""; ""Aristides, the Healthy-Minded Versus St. Augustine, the Sick Soul""; ""Pagan and Christian Sick Souls: Marcus Aurelius and St. Paul""; ""The Sacred Tales in Comparison to the Metamorphoses""; ""Chapter 4: Dreams and Miracles in the Sacred Tales""; ""The Sacred Tales and Religious Aretalogy""; ""The Sacred Tales and Early Christian Miracle Stories"" 
505 8 |a ""Chapter 5: Aristides and the Religious Climate of Late Antiquity""""True Believers in the Greco-Roman World""; ""Skeptics and Doubters in Ancient Times""; ""Systems of Dream Interpretation in the Sacred Tales and Elsewhere""; ""Part Two: Psychological Considerations""; ""Chapter 6: Analysis of the Manifest Contents of Aristides' Dreams""; ""The Manifest Contents of Aristides' Dreams""; ""Anthropological Approaches to the Dream""; ""Applying a Quantitative Approach to the Dreams of Aristides""; ""Frequency of Dream Images in the Sacred Tales"" 
505 8 |a ""Ancient Greek Dream Literature and the Sacred Tales""""Chapter 7: A Functional Analysis of the Personal Religion of Aelius Aristides""; ""A Psycho-social Perspective""; ""The Psychological Value of Aristides' Adhesion to the Cult of Asclepius""; ""The Paradoxical Divine Prescriptions""; ""Reductionist Studies of the Past""; ""Taking the Relativist Approach""; ""Chapter 8: An Analysis of the Laten Contents of Aristides' Dreams""; ""The Cross-cultural Application of Psychoanalysis""; ""The Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Aristides' Religiosity and Dreams""; ""Chapter 9: Concluding Remarks"" 
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