’Why Do Your Eyes Not Run Like A River?’: Ritual Tears in Ancient and Modern Greek Funerary Traditions
Format
Contribution to a Book
Publication Date
2005
Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN
978-0691114439
Description
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.
~publisher's description
Book Title
Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination
First Page
67
Last Page
82
Editor
Kimpberly C. Patton and John Stratton Hawley
Files
City
Princeton, NJ