"’Why Do Your Eyes Not Run Like A River?’: Ritual Tears in Ancient and Modern Greek Funerary Traditions" by Gay Lynch

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’Why Do Your Eyes Not Run Like A River?’: Ritual Tears in Ancient and Modern Greek Funerary Traditions

Holy Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination (2005)

Gay Lynch, Department of Religion and Philosophy, Dominican University of California

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Abstract

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.

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Keywords

funereal traditions,
Greek traditions

Disciplines

Religion

Publication Date

2005

Editor

Kimberly C. Patton and John Stratton Hawley

Publisher

Princeton University Press

ISBN

9780691114439

Citation Information

Gay Lynch. "’Why Do Your Eyes Not Run Like A River?’: Ritual Tears in Ancient and Modern Greek Funerary Traditions" Princeton, NJHoly Tears: Weeping in the Religious Imagination (2005) p. 67 - 82
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/gay-lynch/1/