Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming

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.

• | Author: David Dean Shulman
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 08, 1999
• | Number of Pages: 336 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 0195123360
• | ISBN-13: 9780195123364