From elsewhere: Prophetic visions and dreams among the People of the Earth.
Dreaming June 1, 2004 DOI: 10.1037/1053-0797.14.2-3.94 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | The Earth People of Trinidad, with comparison to village dream theory and the Shouter Baptists |
| Citations | 11 |
| Key points | Argues that new religious ideas may originate in individual dreams, visions, or madness, illustrating this with the founding of the Earth People of Trinidad, whose members still treat dreams as sources of prophetic insight. The author contends that the community's physical daily-life conditions may be conducive to visionary perceptions in a half-waking, half-sleeping state. |
Abstract
Anthropological ethnographies sometimes postulate that new religious ideas may originate in individual dreams, visions, or madness. An illustration is given of the foundation of the Earth People of Trinidad, for whom dreams may still contain prophetic insight or knowledge. Their oneiric understandings have to be placed against their cultural baseline of village dream theory and the dreamlike visions of the Shouter Baptists. It is argued that the physical conditions of the community's daily life are perhaps conducive to visionary perceptions in a half-waking, half-sleeping state. Copyright 2004 by the Educational Publishing Foundation.
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