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 Olupqna
(with Sola Ajibade), Betsee Parker, Kimberley Patton, Nehemia
Polen, Kay Read, and Kallistos Ware."
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