Dream cultures : explorations in the comparative history of dreaming / edited by David Shulman and Guy G. Stroumsa.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shulman, David Dean, 1949-

Stroumsa, Guy G.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dreams--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.

Dreams.

Cross-cultural studies.

Dreams--History--Congresses.

History.

Dream interpretation--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.

Dream interpretation.

Dream interpretation--History--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a workshop held at the Jagdschloss Hubertusstock, in Markt Brandenburg, in September 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0195123360

OCLC:

38890827