BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//EuroSEAS 2026//EN X-WR-CALNAME:EuroSEAS 2026 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Madrid X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Madrid BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 DTSTART:19700329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 DTSTART:19701025T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T065300 UID:euroseas-2026-religious-dreaming-in-buddhist-thailand-1 SUMMARY:Religious Dreaming in Buddhist Thailand (1) LOCATION:Seminar Room 1222 DESCRIPTION:Dreaming is a culturally important and religiously significant experience in Buddhist Thailand, both in the past and the present. Dreams c harged with religious salience are widespread in Thai society and culture, and Thais across the social landscape – men and women, monastics and laity, the wealthy and the impoverished – pay close attention to the possible rel igious meaning of dreams. Popular mass market guides for interpreting dream s (W. Jinpradit 1996) are prolific and widely available, as are guides writ ten by Buddhist authorities (Phra Maha Cho Thasaniyo 2003). Thais regularly seek advise about how to interpret their dreams from a variety of religiou s virtuosos, including monks, nuns, astrologers, spirit mediums, and esoter ic masters.\nPast karmic fates and entanglements, future fortunes and progn ostications, and life-changing insights and revelations are revealed in and through dreams (Quatrich Wales 1983). Deities, spirits and other supernatu ral entities visit and communicate with Thais in and through dreams. These revealed past fates and future fortunes, these divine declarations and inju nctions can, in turn, profoundly guide, redirect and transform Thai religio us lives.\nThe ubiquity of religious dreaming in Buddhist Thailand is widel y noted in passing in the scholarly literature. In addition, the important role that dreams can play in validating religious roles, buttressing religi ous authority, clarifying religious insights, or initiating religious proje cts is similarly frequently noted in passing by scholars (Maud 2007, Pattan a 2012, Preedee 2018). However, until recently religious dreams themselves were rarely a central focus of sustained examination (Stengs 2022; Jackson 2025). The principles and techniques of interpreting dreams religiously hav e also rarely been carefully unpacked. Likewise, the cultural, social and i nterpretive work through which dreams help fuel a variety of religious ends has rarely been studied. Only occasionally have scholars richly documented and closely analyzed dreams, their subsequent interpretation and reinterpr etation, and their unfolding social and cultural entanglements with pre-exi sting religious mythologies, vocations, rituals and communities (Lux 1971, Morris 2000).\nThis laboratory will bring together scholars interested in e xploring a variety of previously under analyzed topics and questions relate d to religious dreaming in Buddhist Thailand. \n\n- The content and form of Thai religious dreams. Is there a common set of narrative forms, themes, t ropes and plots in Thai religious dreams? How is the genre of religious dre ams similar to or different from other associated phenomenon within the Tha i oneiric space of hypnomantic knowledge, such as meditative visions, posse ssion trance, ecstatic reverie and liberating insights? \n- The interpretat ion of Thai religious dreams. What shared principles, rules, and techniques of dream interpretation are utilized when Thais seek to understand the rel igious significance of their dreams? What types of authoritative voices and perspectives are turned to in the interpretation of religious dreams, and to what degree are these authoritative voices collaboratively coordinated i n the interpretation of religious dreams? What are the symbolic scripts of authoritative religious dream interpretation, whether textually or performa tively enabled? How are the interpretations of religious dreams consolidate d, confirmed and authenticated? \n- The social uses of Thai religious dream s. How are religious dreams used to claim, consolidate or increase religiou s knowledge, expertise, authority, charisma and legitimacy? How are religio us dreams used to foster social solidarity, communal belonging, cultural pr estige, and social status? What are the wider set of sociocultural dynamics which enable religious dreams to achieve these various religious goals and benefits? \n- The cultural elaboration of Thai religious dreams. How are r eligious dreams instantiated within the wider material, symbolic, narrative and ritual landscape of Thai religious life? Through what techniques and m ethods are religious dreams and their interpretations turned into enduring features of Thai religious communities and biographies, as well as the stor ies and practices which define these communities and biographies?\n URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/religious-dreaming-in-buddhist-thailand DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260902T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260902T183000 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260604T065300 UID:euroseas-2026-religious-dreaming-in-buddhist-thailand-2 SUMMARY:Religious Dreaming in Buddhist Thailand (2) LOCATION:Seminar Room 1222 DESCRIPTION:Dreaming is a culturally important and religiously significant experience in Buddhist Thailand, both in the past and the present. Dreams c harged with religious salience are widespread in Thai society and culture, and Thais across the social landscape – men and women, monastics and laity, the wealthy and the impoverished – pay close attention to the possible rel igious meaning of dreams. Popular mass market guides for interpreting dream s (W. Jinpradit 1996) are prolific and widely available, as are guides writ ten by Buddhist authorities (Phra Maha Cho Thasaniyo 2003). Thais regularly seek advise about how to interpret their dreams from a variety of religiou s virtuosos, including monks, nuns, astrologers, spirit mediums, and esoter ic masters.\nPast karmic fates and entanglements, future fortunes and progn ostications, and life-changing insights and revelations are revealed in and through dreams (Quatrich Wales 1983). Deities, spirits and other supernatu ral entities visit and communicate with Thais in and through dreams. These revealed past fates and future fortunes, these divine declarations and inju nctions can, in turn, profoundly guide, redirect and transform Thai religio us lives.\nThe ubiquity of religious dreaming in Buddhist Thailand is widel y noted in passing in the scholarly literature. In addition, the important role that dreams can play in validating religious roles, buttressing religi ous authority, clarifying religious insights, or initiating religious proje cts is similarly frequently noted in passing by scholars (Maud 2007, Pattan a 2012, Preedee 2018). However, until recently religious dreams themselves were rarely a central focus of sustained examination (Stengs 2022; Jackson 2025). The principles and techniques of interpreting dreams religiously hav e also rarely been carefully unpacked. Likewise, the cultural, social and i nterpretive work through which dreams help fuel a variety of religious ends has rarely been studied. Only occasionally have scholars richly documented and closely analyzed dreams, their subsequent interpretation and reinterpr etation, and their unfolding social and cultural entanglements with pre-exi sting religious mythologies, vocations, rituals and communities (Lux 1971, Morris 2000).\nThis laboratory will bring together scholars interested in e xploring a variety of previously under analyzed topics and questions relate d to religious dreaming in Buddhist Thailand. \n\n- The content and form of Thai religious dreams. Is there a common set of narrative forms, themes, t ropes and plots in Thai religious dreams? How is the genre of religious dre ams similar to or different from other associated phenomenon within the Tha i oneiric space of hypnomantic knowledge, such as meditative visions, posse ssion trance, ecstatic reverie and liberating insights? \n- The interpretat ion of Thai religious dreams. What shared principles, rules, and techniques of dream interpretation are utilized when Thais seek to understand the rel igious significance of their dreams? What types of authoritative voices and perspectives are turned to in the interpretation of religious dreams, and to what degree are these authoritative voices collaboratively coordinated i n the interpretation of religious dreams? What are the symbolic scripts of authoritative religious dream interpretation, whether textually or performa tively enabled? How are the interpretations of religious dreams consolidate d, confirmed and authenticated? \n- The social uses of Thai religious dream s. How are religious dreams used to claim, consolidate or increase religiou s knowledge, expertise, authority, charisma and legitimacy? How are religio us dreams used to foster social solidarity, communal belonging, cultural pr estige, and social status? What are the wider set of sociocultural dynamics which enable religious dreams to achieve these various religious goals and benefits? \n- The cultural elaboration of Thai religious dreams. How are r eligious dreams instantiated within the wider material, symbolic, narrative and ritual landscape of Thai religious life? Through what techniques and m ethods are religious dreams and their interpretations turned into enduring features of Thai religious communities and biographies, as well as the stor ies and practices which define these communities and biographies?\n URL:https://euroseas2026.org/panels/religious-dreaming-in-buddhist-thailand DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260902T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Madrid:20260902T200000 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR