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Dream Cultures : Explorations in the Comparative History of Dreaming.
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 andIslam. Tak...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press,
1999.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 andIslam. 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (336 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195352597 0195352599 1280471441 9781280471445 1423760166 9781423760160 |