Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination

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書刊名 TitleHoly Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination
作者 AuthorEdited by Kimberley Christine Patton and John Stratton Hawley 
出版社 PublisherPrinceton University Press
出版年 Year2005
語言 Language英文
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(10 / 13)		ISBN-10: 0691114447
ISBN-13: 978-0691114446
Bibliography Reference (STC, Duff, GW . . .)
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Web Link		http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7975.html
評論者Reviewer王明月
撰寫日期 Date2015.03.28

Ø 書評 Review (中英文不限 Chinese or English) 

2001年美國紐約市911恐怖攻擊事件後引發歐美基督徒的集體恐慌與普遍大眾對受害者的哀悼感傷，加上近年中東地區因為宗教信仰不同而暴力衝突不斷，這些時事所引發的焦慮和恐懼提供這本書的作者群在探索淚水與宗教信仰時ㄧ個非常有力的著力點。關於基督教義中提及眼淚的神秘性與聖潔性的神學議題，在911恐怖攻擊事件相襯下，這本書的編輯們訪問紐約市Betsee Parker 牧師的記錄顯示更多關於上帝神聖眼淚的論述與實證經驗談。
　這本書共收集了十六篇文章，從比較宗教學的研究觀點，探討眼淚的宗教儀式、實踐、肢體律動、以及物質文化上的意義。編輯們特別對眼淚的密契內涵提供許多比較宗教學的視角，讓我們檢視眼淚的各種不同的方式：混亂的思緒下的嚎淘痛哭、死寂般沈默的淚泣、尖銳的哭嚎、羞愧的哭泣、絕望的淚水、與宗教人士靈修時因為感受上帝悲憫人類苦難痛哭而ㄧ起流下的神聖眼淚。上帝也會流淚嗎？為何而哭泣？為何人而哭泣？祂如何哭？哭泣是人類與生俱來的本能嗎？何種哭泣的型態是文化制約下吾人學習而來的？何以見得？

關於編者：
Kimberley Christine Patton 現任教於美國哈佛大學神學院，專攻於宗教比較與歷史學、希臘宗教與考古學等研究。著作包括The Sea Can Wash Away All Evils: Modern Marine Pollution and the Ancient Cathartic Ocean (2006), Religion of the Gods: Ritual, Paradox, and Reflexivity (2009)等。
John Stratton Hawley現任教於美國哥倫比亞大學Bernard學院，專攻宗教學，研究領域主要為印度教與北印度宗教傳統等。著作包括Three Bhakti Voices: Mirabai, Surdas, and Kabir in Their Time and Ours (Oxford, 2005 and 2012), The Memory of Love: Surdas Sings to Krishna (Oxford, 2009) 等16本著作。編輯有Saints and Virtues, Fundamentalism and Gender, Holy Tears:  Weeping in the Religious Imagination (2005)等。 

本書目次如下：
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
Introduction by Kimberley Christine Patton and John Stratton Hawley 1
1. The Poetics and Politics of Ritualized Weeping in Early and Medieval Japan
    by Gary L. Ebersole 25
2. Productive Tears: Weeping Speech, Water, and the Underworld in Mexica Tradition by Kay Almere Read 52
3. "Why Do Your Eyes Not Run Like a River?" Ritual Tears in Ancient and Modern     Greek Funerary Traditions by Gay Ord Pollock Lynch 67
4. "Sealing the Book with Tears": Divine Weeping on Mount Nebo and in the Warsaw Ghetto by Rabbi Nehemia Polen 83
5. The Gopis Tears by John Stratton Hawley 94
6. Hsüan-tsang's Encounter with the Buddha: A Cloud of Philosophy in a Drop of Tears by Malcolm David Eckel 112
7. Weeping in Classical Sufism by William C. Chittick 132
8. "No Power of Speech Remains": Tears and Transformation in South Asian Majlis
    Poetry by Amy Bard 145
9. {{Ecedil}}ku{{nacute}} Ì yáwò: Bridal Tears in Marriage Rites of Passage among the óyò-Yorúbà of Nigeria by Jacob K. OlúpónÀ with S{{ocedl}}lá Ajìbàdè 165
10. A Love for All Seasons: Weeping in Jewish Sources by Herbert W. Basser 178
11. "Pray with Tears and Your Request Will Find a Hearing":
      On the Iconology of the Magdalene’s Tears by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona 201
12. Tears and Screaming: Weeping in the Spirituality of Margery Kempe by Santha Bhattacharji 229
13. "An Obscure Matter": The Mystery of Tears in Orthodox Spirituality by Bishop Kallistos Ware 242
14. "Howl, Weep and Moan, and Bring It Back to God": Holy Tears in Eastern Christianity by Kimberley Christine Patton 255
15. "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

Review:
"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."--Choic

Endorsement:
"Fascinating and original, Holy Tears is impressively coherent and should be compelling both to scholars of religion and to cultured readers who normally don't go in for religious themes. It is a model of comparative method in the study of religion, conveying, with all the delight of discovery, many parallels, analogues, and 'braided' similarities in the way religious weeping is understood in different settings while successfully avoiding the 'stuffed birds in a natural history museum' approach. I can't recall the last time I read a comparative or thematic book so rich in ethnographic, mythological, ritual, historical, theological, literary, and iconic anecdotes and detail. Each individual essay is superb; the scholarship throughout is impeccable. This book is truly a feast."--Carol Zaleski, Smith College, author of Otherworld Journeys: The Life of the World to Come
 
"This remarkable book not only adds a powerful and intellectually fruitful theme to comparative religious studies, but also contributes to current research on religious practices, the body, and material culture. The editors focus on a cluster of vivid physical affective experiences associated with tears, from inchoate, messy emotions, deadly silences, screaming, shame, forgetting, inarticulate despair, and an unforgettable evocation of the sense of God weeping at Ground Zero after 9/11, to the most rigidly controlled ritual practices of ecstatic divine vision and presence."--Steven P. Hopkins, Swarthmore College, author of Singing the Body of God: The Hymns of Vedantadesika in Their South Indian Tradition
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