Robert E Sears
Biographic Data
| ID | 4224860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert E Sears |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert E |
| FAMILY NAME | Sears |
| SIGNATURE | SEARS R E |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Intercultural Studies Fuller Theological Seminary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9204-5174 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Conceiving Religious Dreams and Mystical Experiences
This chapter analyzes basic and higher-level features of religious dreams and mystical experiences through the complementary lenses of event cognition and hierarchical predictive coding, which explain cognitive processing in terms of prediction casting and error feedback associated with sensory intake. With regard to mystical experience, it suggests that sustained error feedback, resulting in “de-automatization” of hierarchical processing and “co…
Dreams and Christian Conversion
Despite consideration from missiologists studying Muslim-to-Christian conversion, the role of dreams in contemporary Christian conversion has not received widespread attention. Additionally, though researchers have frequently noted the use of dreams among Pentecostal/charismatic Christians, this finding stands in need of exploration vis-à-vis the concept of conversion. This study will address each of these issues and further the general understan…
Dreaming mystical experience among Christians and Hindus
This study examines the responses of Nepali Christians and Hindus to the newly developed Dreaming Mysticism Scale (DMS). Factor breakdowns of the DMS for Christians and Hindus were basically identical, and together they and the factor breakdown of the combined sample suggest an interpretation–extraversion–interpretation typology that corresponds to the typical finding of studies employing the cognate M Scale. Differences between the DMS and the S…
The Construction, Preliminary Validation, and Correlates of a Dream-Specific Scale for Mystical Experience
This study aimed to create and test a dream-specific version of Hood's Mysticism (M) Scale for the purpose of studying dreaming mystical experience. Factor analysis of the Spiritual Dreams Scale (SDS), based on data collected from 289 adults affiliated with an American evangelical Christian school, clearly resulted in three factors in accordance with prior studies of the M Scale. However, the factor composition of the SDS did not identically rese…
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The Construction, Preliminary Validation, and Correlates of a Dream-Specific Scale for Mystical Experience
This study aimed to create and test a dream-specific version of Hood's Mysticism (M) Scale for the purpose of studying dreaming mystical experience. Factor analysis of the Spiritual Dreams Scale (SDS), based on data collected from 289 adults affiliated with an American evangelical Christian school, clearly resulted in three factors in accordance with prior studies of the M Scale. However, the factor composition of the SDS did not identically rese…
Dreaming mystical experience among Christians and Hindus
This study examines the responses of Nepali Christians and Hindus to the newly developed Dreaming Mysticism Scale (DMS). Factor breakdowns of the DMS for Christians and Hindus were basically identical, and together they and the factor breakdown of the combined sample suggest an interpretation–extraversion–interpretation typology that corresponds to the typical finding of studies employing the cognate M Scale. Differences between the DMS and the S…
Dreams and Christian Conversion
Despite consideration from missiologists studying Muslim-to-Christian conversion, the role of dreams in contemporary Christian conversion has not received widespread attention. Additionally, though researchers have frequently noted the use of dreams among Pentecostal/charismatic Christians, this finding stands in need of exploration vis-à-vis the concept of conversion. This study will address each of these issues and further the general understan…
Conceiving Religious Dreams and Mystical Experiences
This chapter analyzes basic and higher-level features of religious dreams and mystical experiences through the complementary lenses of event cognition and hierarchical predictive coding, which explain cognitive processing in terms of prediction casting and error feedback associated with sensory intake. With regard to mystical experience, it suggests that sustained error feedback, resulting in “de-automatization” of hierarchical processing and “co…
Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Dream (3 works) · Mysticism (3 works) · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Cartography (2 works) · Paranormal Experiences and Beliefs (2 works) · Psychotherapist (2 works) · Religious studies (2 works)