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Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination by Kimberley Christine Patton

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Publication Date
2005-07-25
Pages
368
ISBN
9780691114446
Book Title
Holy Tears : Weeping in the Religious Imagination
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Item Length
9.2 in
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1 in
Author
John Stratton Hawley
Genre
Psychology, Religion, Social Science
Topic
General, Emotions, Sociology of Religion
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
368 Pages

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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 topics in religious weeping while also considering broader issues such as gender, memory, physiology, and spontaneity. A comprehensive, elegantly written introduction offers a key to these topics. Given the pervasiveness of its theme, it is remarkable that this book is the first of its kind--and it is long overdue. The essays ask such questions as: Is religious weeping primal or culturally constructed? Is it universal? Is it spontaneous? Does God ever cry? Is religious weeping altered by sexual or social roles? Is it, perhaps, at once scripted and spontaneous, private and communal? Is it, indeed, divine? The grief occasioned by 9/11 and violence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, and elsewhere offers a poignant context for this fascinating and richly detailed book. Holy Tears concludes with a compelling meditation on the theology of weeping that emerged from pastoral responses to 9/11, as described in the editors' interview with Reverend Betsee Parker, who became head chaplain for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of New York City and leader of the multifaith chaplaincy team at Ground Zero. The contributors are Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Amy Bard, Herbert Basser, Santha Bhattacharji, William Chittick, Gary Ebersole, M. David Eckel, John Hawley, Gay Lynch, Jacob Ol pqn (with Sol Aj b d ), Betsee Parker, Kimberley Patton, Nehemia Polen, Kay Read, and Kallistos Ware.

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691114447
ISBN-13
9780691114446
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30783734

Product Key Features

Book Title
Holy Tears : Weeping in the Religious Imagination
Number of Pages
368 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Emotions, Sociology of Religion
Publication Year
2005
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Psychology, Religion, Social Science
Type
Textbook
Author
John Stratton Hawley
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
College Audience
Reviews
A top-notch roster of scholars has produced an exceptional collection of essays, breaking new and fruitful ground in the study of religion. . . . Contributors continually test the far-from-simple relationship between crying and emotion, and carefully probe the complicated meshing of personal history with collective memory., "A top-notch roster of scholars has produced an exceptional collection of essays, breaking new and fruitful ground in the study of religion. . . . Contributors continually test the far-from-simple relationship between crying and emotion, and carefully probe the complicated meshing of personal history with collective memory." -- Choice, A top-notch roster of scholars has produced an exceptional collection of essays, breaking new and fruitful ground in the study of religion. . . . Contributors continually test the far-from-simple relationship between crying and emotion, and carefully probe the complicated meshing of personal history with collective memory. -- Choice, "A top-notch roster of scholars has produced an exceptional collection of essays, breaking new and fruitful ground in the study of religion. . . . Contributors continually test the far-from-simple relationship between crying and emotion, and carefully probe the complicated meshing of personal history with collective memory."-- Choice
Dewey Edition
22
Lccn
2004-042188
Dewey Decimal
204/.2
Lc Classification Number
Bl65.C75h65 2004
Table of Content
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi Introduction by Kimberley Christine Patton and John Stratton Hawley 1 The Poetics and Politics of Ritualized Weeping in Early and Medieval Japan by Gary L. Ebersole 25 Productive Tears: Weeping Speech, Water, and the Underworld in Mexica Tradition by Kay Almere Read 52 "Why Do Your Eyes Not Run Like a River?" Ritual Tears in Ancient and Modern Greek Funerary Traditions by Gay Ord Pollock Lynch 67 "Sealing the Book with Tears": Divine Weeping on Mount Nebo and in the Warsaw Ghetto by Rabbi Nehemia Polen 83 The Gopis Tears by John Stratton Hawley 94 HsÜan-tsang's Encounter with the Buddha: A Cloud of Philosophy in a Drop of Tears by Malcolm David Eckel 112 Weeping in Classical Sufism by William C. Chittick 132 "No Power of Speech Remains": Tears and Transformation in South Asian Majlis Poetry by Amy Bard 145 {{Ecedil}}ku{{nacute}} Ì yÁwÒ: Bridal Tears in Marriage Rites of Passage among the ÓyÒ-YorÚbÀ of Nigeria by Jacob K. OlÚpÓnÀ with S{{ocedl}}lÁ AjÌbÀdÈ 165 A Love for All Seasons: Weeping in Jewish Sources by Herbert W. Basser 178 "Pray with Tears and Your Request Will Find a Hearing": On the Iconology of the Magdalene's Tears by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona 201 Tears and Screaming: Weeping in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe by Santha Bhattacharji 229 "An Obscure Matter": The Mystery of Tears in Orthodox Spirituality by Bishop Kallistos Ware 242 "Howl, Weep and Moan, and Bring It Back to God": Holy Tears in Eastern Christianity by Kimberley Christine Patton 255 "Send Thou Me": God's Weeping and the Sanctification of Ground Zero by Reverend Betsee Parker 274 Epilogue: Tikkun ha-olam 301 INDEX 303 CONTRIBUTORS 313
Copyright Date
2005

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