Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming

Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming
ISBN-10
0195352599
ISBN-13
9780195352597
Category
Religion
Pages
336
Language
English
Published
1999-07-08
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Authors
David Shulman, Guy G. Stroumsa

Description

This volume offers a comparative, cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich variety of religious contexts: China, India, the Americas, classical Greek and Roman antiquity, early Christianity, and medieval Judaism and Islam. Taken together, these pieces constitute an important first step toward a new understanding of the differences and similarities between the ways in which different cultures experience the universal yet utterly unique world of dreams.

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