Part 3. Dreams and Visions in Merovingian Hagiography

2020 ◽  
pp. 169-224
Keyword(s):  
Dreams And Visions

The Divine Presence

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barend J. ter Haar
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Spirit Possession ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Local People ◽  
Divine Presence ◽  
Dreams And Visions

Statues and other images were central in the worship of the anthropomorphic deities that became increasingly popular from the Song onwards. Stories would be attached to them, both more personal recent memories and collectively transmitted miracles from the more distant past. These images and stories structured how people imagined the deity and what he was capable of. They enabled them to identify the deity when he appeared to them in a dream, in a vision, or even in real life. This chapter follows the ways in which people encountered Lord Guan in temples and shrines, as well as in dreams and visions, and how they actively enacted him in ritual theatre and different forms of spirit possession. It closes by looking at some of the stories that local people in some regions told of the deity’s early life, again with the aim of making him more real and more imaginable.

Dreams and Visions in the Anglo-Saxon Conversion to Christianity.

Dreaming ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Dreams And Visions

Liminal minds

Forum+ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Goda Palekaitė
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
The State ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Initiation Rites ◽  
Transformative Potential ◽  
Dreams And Visions

Abstract The concept of liminality was first introduced by Arnold van Gennep in Rites de Passage in 1909. There, he observed the rites of passage or transformative rituals of social life (such as weddings, funerals, initiation rites, etc.). Liminality was described as the psychic and emotional state in-between one social status and another, in a state of ambiguity, disorientation and loss of fixed identity. In my research, I adopt the concept of liminality not in the classical anthropological sense but rather in a personal sense. I am interested in personal journeys, often secret transitions and transgressions, usually accompanied by dreams and visions placing persons outside of the society, alienating and excluding them. Yet, I believe liminality to be the state of creativity and I am interested in its transformative potential.

Analyse der Struktur des masoretischen und nicht-masoretischen Danielbuches (MT-Dan und LXX967-Dan) unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der Zeitangaben

2021 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-45
Author(s):  
Karin Finsterbusch ◽  
Antonella Bellantuono
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Diaspora ◽  
Dreams And Visions ◽  
Book Of Daniel ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Main Variant

Abstract This article focuses on the different structures of the main variant literary editions of Daniel (MT-Dan and LXX967-Dan). In MT-Dan, the text moves from the story about Daniel (Dan 1–6) to Daniel’s extensive reports about his dreams and visions (Dan 7–12), thus making the voice of Daniel the dominant one in the book. The textual sequence of the edition represented by LXX967-Dan differs significantly, since chapters 7–8 are placed behind chapter 4. Furthermore, this edition includes several additions (as BelDrag, Sus and an epilogue). In this edition, chronology is the prominent organizing principle of the text (at least with regard to the main chapters 1–12). Consequently, the dominant voice throughout the book is the voice of the book narrator. Whereas MT-Dan may be described as the book of Daniel, LXX967-Dan appears as a biographic book about Daniel, which should primarily serve, according to the epilogue, as an instruction for the youth in the Jewish Diaspora.

On Coffee-Houses, Smoking, and the English Essay Tradition

On Essays ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 150-166
Author(s):  
Denise Gigante
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
Civilizing Process ◽  
Leigh Hunt ◽  
Dreams And Visions ◽  
Periodical Essay ◽  
Belles Lettres ◽  
Cigar Smoking

The Romantic essayist James Henry Leigh Hunt, in two essays saturated with nostalgia for a lost world of Enlightenment coffee-house sociability, registers a shift in the cultural place of the literary essay in the 1820s—the era of the cigar-smoking George IV—from an urban public sphere dominated by Mr Spectator and his pipe, to more suburban cubicles of domestic privacy. Through the medium of Hunt’s self-reflective essays on the English periodical essay tradition, this chapter reveals the fate of the literary periodical essay to be linked to a fading amateur culture of belles-lettres and ornamental arts. Hunt blames the early essayists for the result of the civilizing process: the cultivation of a taste for polite literature that has isolated readers and emptied Covent Garden of its intellectual life. The reveries, dreams, and visions of the literary essay made possible by the Orientalized cigar divan (Romantic successor to the coffee-house) reflect the complicated reality of London in an age of global imperialism.

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