Format:
XII, 317 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
0691114439
,
0691114447
,
9780691114439
,
9780691114446
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
The poetics and politics of ritualized weeping in early and medieval Japan /Gary L. Ebersole --Productive tears : weeping speech, water, and the underworld in Mexica tradition /Kay Almere Read --"Why do your eyes not run like a river?" : ritual tears in ancient and modern Greek funerary traditions /Gay Ord Pollock Lynch --"Sealing the book with tears" : divine weeping on Mount Nebo and in the Warsaw ghetto /Nehemia Polen --The Gopīs' tears /John Stratton Hawley --Hsüan-tsang's encounter with the Buddha : a cloud of philosophy in a drop of tears /Malcolm David Eckel --Weeping in classical Sufism /William C. Chittick --"No power of speech remains" : tears and transformation in south Asian majlis poetry /Amy Bard --Ẹkuń ìyàwó : bridal tears in marriage rites of passage among the Ọ̀yọ́-Yorùbá of Nigeria /Jacob K. Olúpọ̀nà with Ṣọlá Ajíbádé --A love for all seasons : weeping in Jewish sources /Herbert W. Basser --"Pray with tears and your request will find a hearing" : on the iconology of the Magdalene's tears /Diane Apostolos-Cappadona --Tears and screaming : weeping in the spirituality of Margery Kempe /Santha Bhattacharji --"An obscure matter" : the mystery of tears in Orthodox spirituality /Kallistos Ware --"Howl, weep and moan, and bring it back to God" : holy tears in Eastern Christianity /Kimberley Christine Patton --"Send thou me" : God's weeping and the sanctification of Ground Zero /Betsee Parker.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Weinen
;
Religion
;
Weinen
;
Trauer
;
Religion
;
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