By Charles Stewart (NHC Fellow, 1996–97) Charles Stewart tells the story of the inhabitants of Kóronos, on the Greek island of Naxos, who, in the 1830s, began experiencing dreams in which the Virgin Mary instructed them to search for buried Christian icons nearby and build a church to house the ones they found. Miraculously, they … Continued
Edited by Leslie Tuttle (NHC Fellow, 2010–11) and Ann Marie Plane In Europe and North and South America during the early modern period, people believed that their dreams might be, variously, messages from God, the machinations of demons, visits from the dead, or visions of the future. Interpreting their dreams in much the same ways … Continued
By Robert R. Edwards (NHC Fellow, 1985–86)
By Ana Mariella Bacigalupo (NHC Fellow, 2009–10) The first study of how Mapuche shamans make history, this book challenges perceptions of shamans as being outside of history and examines how shamans themselves understand notions of civilization, savagery, and historical processes.