Among All These Dreamers: Essays on Dreaming and Modern Society

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Kelly Bulkeley
State University of New York Press, Jul 3, 1996 - Psychology - 259 pages
This multidisciplinary volume examines the cultural and social relevance of dream studies, looking at various ways that the field can contribute to the resolution of the modern West's most troubling social issues. The essays offer novel insights on education, sexual abuse, ecology, crime, race, gender, religion, politics, death, and cross-cultural conflict. The contributors argue that the study of dreams can provide valuable resources to regain a vibrant, trustworthy sense of moral and spiritual orientation in life.
 

Contents

Using Nightmares to Facilitate
13
Do Dreams Have a Role
35
Dreams and Dialogues with Others
49
Black Dreamers in the United States
73
From Polarity to Plurality
107
Dreams Spirituality and Modernity
137
PreDeath Spiritual
157
Western Dreams about Eastern Dreams
169
Dreams and Critical Reflections on Our Culture
177
Dreaming Up the Solution
195
Lets Stand Up Regain Our Balance
225
Conclusion
237
List of Contributors
253
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Kelly Bulkeley is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Association for the Study of Dreams, and teaches at the Graduate Theological Union at University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of The Wilderness of Dreams: Exploring the Religious Meanings of Dreams in Modern Western Culture, also published by SUNY Press, and Spiritual Dreaming.

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