Name: Dreaming in Christianity and Islam: Culture, Conflict, and Creativity
Author: Taylor, Jeremy
ISBN: 9780813546094

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Dreaming in Christianity and Islam: Culture, Conflict, and Creativity

edited by Kelly Bulkeley, Kate Adams and Patricia M Davis
contributions by Hidayet Aydar, Muhammad Amanullah, Abdemalek Yamani, Mehmet Dalkilic, Lana Nasser, Parisa Rahimian, Resat Ongoren, Lewis Rambo, Iain Edgar, Jeremy Taylor, Patricia M Davis, Bart Koet, Bonnelle Strickling, Geoff Nelson and Patricia Bulkley
foreword by Lee Butler

Rutgers University Press, 2009
Paper: 978-0-8135-4610-0 | eISBN: 978-0-8135-7856-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-4609-4
Library of Congress Classification BR115.D74D74 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 204.2

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Throughout history to the present day, religion has ideologically fueled wars, conquests, and persecutions. Christianity and Islam, the world's largest and geopolitically powerful faiths, are often positioned as mortal enemies locked in an apocalyptic "clash of civilizations." Rarely are similarities addressed.

Dreaming in Christianity and Islam, the first book to explore dreaming in these religions through original essays, fills this void. The editors reach a plateau by focusing on how studying dreams reveals new aspects of social and political reality. International scholars document the impact of dreams on sacred texts, mystical experiences, therapeutic practices, and doctrinal controversies.

REVIEWS

The 1970s are one of the most under-appreciated periods in the history of comic books. As sales collapsed, comic book publishers grasped at any innovation that offered a potential road forward. Paul Williams’s masterful study focuses on this chaotic period as it traces the complex ways that catastrophic change spurred a fundamental reconsideration of what comic books were and could be. Drawing on a vast array of historical documents, Williams shows how the graphic novel became the cultural format of our time.— Bart Beaty, author of The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Accessible and detailed, Williams’s study expands on previous scholarship on the evolution of comics into graphic narratives. Highly recommended.— Choice

There is much to recommend in Williams’ examples of, and conversation around, long-form comics of the period provided throughout the book....An excellent corrective to the scatter-shot references one usually encounters [that] succeeds in correcting some long-standing misconceptions about the development of the graphic novel.— Inks

Dreaming the Graphic Novel undertakes the very important task of deepening our understanding of the origins of book format comics and giving a historical context to the anxieties around comics and graphic novels in the 2000s.— European Journal of American Culture

Review of Dreaming the Graphic Novel in Medienwissenschaft 01/2021— Medienwissenschaft

As Williams’ detailed scholarship shows, efforts by major creators like Corben, Will Eisner, and Art Spiegelman secured academic and cultural legitimacy for the graphic novel while ensuring, through their newly integrative approach, a differential art recognized for its aesthetic seriousness yet independent of institutional strictures.— Technical Communication Journal

Dreaming the Graphic Novel is a methodological wonder for scholars interested in American popular culture, digital humanities, text mining, and the history of comics and graphic novels. His mixed methodological approach allows him to successfully participate in 'the ongoing recovery of comics studies’ prehistory' as well as establish 'a new way of doing graphic novel history.' Williams’ book should be a required reading...for courses offering an introduction to graphic novels in the U.S. Comics fans, comics scholars, and those interested in the history of graphic novel might also find this a stimulating read.— ImageTexT

A thoughtful and engaging exploration of the complex disagreements and debates over the term, form and temporality of the 'graphic novel.'— Mel Gibson, editor of Superheroes and Identities

While questioning the importance of the Western psychology of dreams and their function, this volume embraces these communities' theological understandings of dreams as communications from the divine and argues that dreams can be interpreted vehicles to bring the two communities together in peaceful unity. Recommended.

— Choice

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