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Author Stephens, John, 1951- author.

Title The dreams and visions of Aelius Aristides : a case-study in the history of religions / by John Stephens
Published Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, 2013

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Series Perspectives on philosophy and religious thought, 1940-0020 ; 10
Perspectives on philosophy and religious thought ; 10. 1940-0020
Contents ""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""
""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""
""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""
""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""
Summary 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 environment of the Roman world in the first and second century CE
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Aristides, Aelius -- Criticism and interpretation
Asklepios (Greek deity) -- Cult
Aristides, Aelius
Asklepios (Greek deity)
Aristides, Aelius 117-187 Sacri sermones
Aesculapius
Religion -- History.
religious history.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
Cults
Religion
Religiƶse Erfahrung
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781463202781
1463202784