Holy Tears : : Weeping in the Religious Imagination /

Holy Tears : : Weeping in the Religious Imagination / / ed. by Kimberley Christine Patton, John Stratton Hawley.

What religion does not serve as a theater of tears? Holy Tears addresses this all but universal phenomenon with passion and precision, ranging from Mycenaean Greece up through the tragedy of 9/11. Sixteen authors, including many leading voices in the study of religion, offer essays on specific topic...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Ajíbádé, Sọlá,
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane,
Bard, Amy,
Basser, Herbert W.,
Chittick, William C.,
Ebersole, Gary L.,
Eckel, Malcolm David,
Hawley, John Stratton,
Lynch, Gay Ord Pollock,
Olúpònà, Jacob K.,
Parker, Betsee,
Patton, Kimberley Christine,
Polen, Rabbi Nehemia,
Read, Kay Almere,
Ware, Bishop Kallistos,
HerausgeberIn:
Hawley, John Stratton,
Patton, Kimberley Christine,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©2005
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Introduction
  • The Poetics and Politics of Ritualized Weeping in Early and Medieval Japan
  • Productive Tears: Weeping Speech, Water, and the Underworld in the Mexica Tradition
  • “Why Do Your Eyes Not Run Like a River?” Ritual Tears in Ancient and Modern Greek Funerary Traditions
  • “Sealing the Book with Tears”: Divine Weeping on Mount Nebo and in the Warsaw Ghetto
  • The Gopīs’ Tears
  • Hsüan-tsang’s Encounter with the Buddha: A Cloud of Philosophy in a Drop of Tears
  • Weeping in Classical Sufism
  • “No Power of Speech Remains”: Tears and Transformation in South Asian Majlis Poetry
  • Ẹkuń Ìyàwó: Bridal Tears in Marriage Rites of Passage among the Ǫ̀yǫ́-Yorùbá of Nigeria
  • A Love for All Seasons: Weeping in Jewish Sources
  • “Pray with Tears and Your Request Will Find a Hearing”: On the Iconology of the Magdalene’s Tears
  • Tears and Screaming: Weeping in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe
  • “An Obscure Matter”: The Mystery of Tears in Orthodox Spirituality
  • “Howl, Weep and Moan, and Bring It Back to God”: Holy Tears in Eastern Christianity
  • “Send Thou Me”: God’s Weeping and the Sanctification of Ground Zero
  • Epilogue: Tikkun ha-olam
  • Index
  • Contributors

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