Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious ImaginationKimberley Christine Patton, John Stratton Hawley Princeton University Press, 26/06/2018 - 368 páginas 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. |
Índice
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The Poetics and Politics of Ritualized Weeping in Early and Medieval Japan | 25 |
Weeping Speech Water and the Underworld in Mexica Tradition | 52 |
Why Do Your Eyes Not Run Like a River? Ritual Tears in Ancient and Modern Greek Funerary Traditions | 67 |
Divine Weeping on Mount Nebo and in the Warsaw Ghetto | 83 |
The Gopis Tears | 94 |
A Cloud of Philosophy in a Drop of Tears | 112 |
Weeping in Classical Sufism | 132 |
Weeping in Jewish Sources | 178 |
On the Iconology of the Magdalenes Tears | 201 |
Weeping in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe | 229 |
The Mystery of Tears in Orthodox Spirituality | 242 |
Holy Tears in Eastern Christianity | 255 |
Gods Weeping and the Sanctification of Ground Zero | 274 |
Tikkun haolam | 301 |
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Tears and Transformation in South Asian Majlis Poetry | 145 |
Bridal Tears in Marriage Rites of Passage among the ÒyóYorùbá of Nigeria | 165 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 313 |
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