Dream Cultures: Explorations in the Comparative History of DreamingDavid Dean Shulman, Guy G. Stroumsa Oxford University Press, 1999 - 325 pages 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. |
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