Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination
Patton, Kimberley Christine and Hawley, John Stratton
Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination - Princeton Princeton University Press 2005 - 317p ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The poetics and politics of ritualized weeping in early and medieval Japan / Productive tears : weeping speech, water, and the underworld in 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 Ọ̀yọ́-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 / Gary L. Ebersole -- Kay Almere Read -- Gay Ord Pollock Lynch -- Nehemia Polen -- John Stratton Hawley -- Malcolm David Eckel -- William C. Chittick -- Amy Bard -- Jacob K. Olúpọ̀nà with Ṣọlá Ajíbádé -- Herbert W. Basser -- Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Santha Bhattacharji -- Kallistos Ware -- Kimberley Christine Patton -- Betsee Parker.
9780691114446
2004042188
013080185 Uk
Crying--Religious aspects.
SS10 / P278
Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination - Princeton Princeton University Press 2005 - 317p ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The poetics and politics of ritualized weeping in early and medieval Japan / Productive tears : weeping speech, water, and the underworld in 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 Ọ̀yọ́-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 / Gary L. Ebersole -- Kay Almere Read -- Gay Ord Pollock Lynch -- Nehemia Polen -- John Stratton Hawley -- Malcolm David Eckel -- William C. Chittick -- Amy Bard -- Jacob K. Olúpọ̀nà with Ṣọlá Ajíbádé -- Herbert W. Basser -- Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Santha Bhattacharji -- Kallistos Ware -- Kimberley Christine Patton -- Betsee Parker.
9780691114446
2004042188
013080185 Uk
Crying--Religious aspects.
SS10 / P278