“Did it happen or did it not?”: Dream stories, worldview, and narrative knowing

1998 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 319-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald Braid
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Knowing ◽  
Dream Stories

Dreams from Beyond as Politics from Below

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-78
Author(s):  
Ida Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dream Stories

Building on ethnographic fieldwork in Istanbul in 2015, this article traces how certain people within the Hizmet community drew on dream stories to understand and manoeuvre within the escalating falling-out with the AKP government. It suggests that, in this context, dream stories were circulated within the community to reframe the conflict against the horizon of the afterlife but prevented from spilling into the wider public sphere out of fear that Hizmet critics would use dream stories to denounce the community as a threat to Turkish republican tradition. The article thus proposes to see the social life of dream stories as a ‘politics from below’ through which relations between the religious and the political refracted and notions of national and religious belonging were negotiated and contested.

Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences.Donald E. Polkinghorne

1989 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 258-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert J. Richards
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Knowing
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