The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains: No. 213 (Civilization of American Indian S.) - Hardcover

Irwin, Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806126434 ISBN 13: 9780806126432

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994

Synopsis

In The Dream Seekers, Lee Irwin demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion.
Irwin draws on 350 visionary dreams from published and unpublished sources that span 150 years to describe the shared features of cosmology for twenty-three groups of Plains Indians. This comprehensive work is not a recital but an understandable exploration of the religious world of Plains Indians.
The different means of acquiring visions that are described include the spontaneous vision experience common among Plains Indian women and means such as stress, illness, social conflict, and mourning used by both men and women to obtain visions. Irwin describes the various stages of the structured male vision quest as well as the central issues of unsuccessful or abandoned quests, threshold experiences during a vision, and the means by which religious empowerment is attained and transferred.

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Readers of the Dream Seekers may contact me at the following e-mail address: Irwinl@cofc.edu. I welcome comments and queries. Lee Irwin Religious Studies College of Charleston Charleston, SC 29424

Synopsis:

Irwin demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion. Drawing on 350 visionary dreams from sources spanning 150 years, he discusses the shared cosmological features for 23 groups of Plains Indians, including the spontaneous vision experience common among women; stress, illn

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0806126434
• ISBN 13: 9780806126432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320