Dream Cultures Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming

Zusatztext Fifteen essays by an impressive international team of specialists in literature! anthropology and history of religion... Dream Cultures strengthens the view that dreams are not necessarily the domain of psychology. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung This work offers a comparative cross-cultural history of dreams. The authors examine a range of texts concerning dreams, from a variety of religious contexts (including China, the Americas and Greek and Roman antiquity) to explore the ways in which different cultures experience the world of dreams.

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• Authors: David Dean Stroumsa Shulman, David Stroumsa Shulman, David (Professor of Indian Studies and Co Shulman
• Assisted by: David Dean Shulman (Editor), Guy G. Stroumsa (Editor), David Shulman (Editor), David (Professor of Indian Studies and Comparative Religion) Shulman (Editor), Guy G. (Professor of Comparative Religion Stroumsa (Editor), Shulman David (Editor), Stroumsa Guy G. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 29.07.1999
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > General, dictionaries
• EAN: 9780195123364
• ISBN: 978-0-19-512336-4
• Pages: 336
• Subjects: Cultural Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, RELIGION / Psychology of Religion, Religion: general, Psychology: states of consciousness, Sleep & dreams