Children's Divine Dreams: A Conceptual and Empirical Study with Implications for Religioius Education

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This doctoral study is a conceptual and empirical exploration of the belief in, and experience of, dreams which the dreamer attributes a divine connection to. Whilst psychology is the contemporary home of dream research, the earliest records of discussion of dreams are located within religious contexts (Doniger and Bulkeley, 1993). Dreams with a perceived divine connection ('divine dreams') have been recorded since ancient times, and have primarily been the dreams of adults, not children. However, a small amount of literature suggests that some children dream about God (Adams, 2001) and some children attribute a divine origin to some of their dreams (Coles, 1990). This work studies the …