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Dreaming in the world's religions : a comparative history / Kelly Bulkeley.
LIBRA BL65.D67 B83 2008
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bulkeley, Kelly, 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dreams--Religious aspects--History.
- Dreams.
- Religions--History.
- Religions.
- History.
- Dreams--Religious aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2008]
- Summary:
- From biblical stories of Joseph interpreting the Pharaoh's dreams in Egypt to prayers against bad dreams in the Hindu Rg Veda, cultures all over the world have seen their dreams first and foremost as religiously meaningful experiences. Dreaming in the World's Religions provides an authoritative and engaging one-volume resource for the study of dreaming and religion. It tells the story of how dreaming has shaped the religious history of humankind, from the conception dream of Buddha's mother to the sexually tempting nightmares of St. Augustine, and from the Ojibwa vision quest to Australian Aboriginal journeys in the Dreamtime. Dreaming in the World's Religions offers a carefully researched, accessibly written portrait of dreaming as a powerful, unpredictable, often iconoclastic force in human religious life.
- Contents:
- Hinduism
- Chinese religions
- Buddhism
- Religions of the Fertile Crescent
- Religions of ancient Greece and Rome
- Christianity
- Islam
- Religions of Africa
- Religions of Oceania
- Religions of the Americas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-317) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780814799567
- 0814799566
- 9780814799574
- 0814799574
- OCLC:
- 182529012
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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