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1 online resource |
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Perspectives on philosophy and religious thought, 1940-0020 ; 10 |
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Perspectives on philosophy and religious thought ; 10. 1940-0020
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| 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"" |
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""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"" |
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""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"" |
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""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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Aristides, Aelius -- Criticism and interpretation
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Asklepios (Greek deity) -- Cult
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Aristides, Aelius |
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Asklepios (Greek deity) |
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Aristides, Aelius 117-187 Sacri sermones |
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Aesculapius |
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Religion -- History.
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religious history.
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BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Spirituality -- Paganism & Neo-Paganism.
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RELIGION -- Antiquities & Archaeology.
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Cults
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Religion
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Religiöse Erfahrung
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781463202781 |
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1463202784 |
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