The poetics and politics of ritualized weeping in early and medieval Japan /Gary L. Ebersole -- Productive tears : weeping speech, water, and the underworld in Mexica 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 / Nehemia Polen -- The Gopis' tears / John Stratton Hawley -- Hsüan-tsang's encounter with the Buddha : a cloud 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 -- Ekun y︡w̉ ̤: bridal tears in marriage rites of passage among the Òyó-Yorb̮ ̀of Nigeria / Jacob K. Olp︢òn ̉with Sol ̀Ajb̕d̀ ̌-- 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 / 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 / Betsee Parker.