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Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination
Kimberley Christine Patton (Ed.)
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Description for Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination
Paperback. What religion does not serve as a theater of tears? This work addresses this universal phenomenon ranging from Mycenaean Greece up through the tragedy of 9/11. It offers essays on specific topics in religious weeping while also considering issues such as gender, memory, physiology, and spontaneity. Editor(s): Patton, Kimberley Christine; Hawley, John Stratton. Num Pages: 368 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 36. Weight in Grams: 466.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
555g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691114446
SKU
V9780691114446
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About Kimberley Christine Patton (Ed.)
Kimberley Christine Patton is Professor of the Comparative and Historical Study of Religion at Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity (Oxford, forthcoming) and is coeditor and a contributing author of A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in a Postmodern Age (California). John Stratton Hawley is Ann ... Read more
Reviews for Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination
A top-notch roster of scholars has produced an exceptional collection of essays, breaking new and fruitful ground in the study of religion... Contributors continually test the far-from-simple relationship between crying and emotion, and carefully probe the complicated meshing of personal history with collective memory.
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