Weeping in the Religious Imagination
Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
ISBN: 978-0-691-11444-6
Verlag: Princeton University Press
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 Olúpqnà (with Solá Ajíbádé), Betsee Parker, Kimberley Patton, Nehemia Polen, Kay Read, and Kallistos Ware.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Theologie, Doktrine
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Religionspsychologie
Weitere Infos & Material
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
Hs?an-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}} ? y?w?: Bridal Tears in Marriage Rites of Passage among the ?y?-Yor?b? of Nigeria by Jacob K. Ol?p?n? with S{{ocedl}}l? Aj?b?d? 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
