Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming

by David Dean Shulman

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195123360
• ISBN13: 9780195123364
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"