Dream Cultures

Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming

• Author(s): David Dean Shulman, Guy G. Stroumsa,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Pages: 325
• ISBN_10: 0195123360
  ISBN_13: 9780195123364
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit / Dreams , Psychology / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition , Religion / General , Religion / Comparative Religion , Self-Help / Dreams , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General ,

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.