The poetics and politics of ritualized weeping in early and medieval Japan / Gary Ebersole
Productive tears: weeping speech, water, and the underworld in Mexican 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 / Rabbi Nehemia Polen
The Gopīs' tears / John Stratton Hawley
Hsüan-tsang's encounter with the Buddha: a could 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
E̦kuń Ìyàwó: bridal tears in marriage rites of passage among the Ò̦yó̦-Yorùbá of Nigeria / Jacob K. Olúpò̦nà, Șo̦lá 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 / Bishop 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 / Reverend Betsee Parker.
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Holy tears : weeping in the religious imagination. ISBN 0691114447. Published by Princeton University Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
