Dream Cultures Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming [Hardcover]

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.

This book is a major contribution to redressing the need for more culturally sensitive theories of dreams and dreaming. --Journal of the American Academy of Religion