A TIME TO MOURN, A TIME TO DANCE: THE EXPRESSION OF GRIEF By Gary A. Anderson VG

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ISBN-10
027100729X
Book Title
A Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance: The Expression of Grief and Joy
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9780271007298
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Publisher
Pennsylvania STATE University Press
ISBN-10
027100729X
ISBN-13
9780271007298
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4038264650

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Number of Pages
158 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Time to Mourn, a Time to Dance : the Expression of Grief and Joy in Israelite Religion
Subject
Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Middle East / Israel & Palestine, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament, Emotions, Jewish
Publication Year
1991
Type
Textbook
Author
Gary A. Anderson
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Religion, Social Science, Psychology, History
Format
Hardcover

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1 in
Item Weight
10.1 Oz
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1 in
Item Width
1 in

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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
90-044290
Dewey Edition
20
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A
Dewey Decimal
296.4
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Anthropologists have long known that different cultures give expression to their symbol systems through external mediums such as food and clothing, but they have not recognized as readily that cultures also mold emotional life to fit particular patterns of meaning. This prejudice against the role of behaviors in shaping the emotional and cognitive life is especially strong in the study of religion. Gary Anderson's study reveals that, in the Israelite culture (and later, the Jewish culture), mourning and joy as emotional experiences have visible behavioral components for both the individual and the community at large. The best evidence of this can be found in rabbinical texts that prescribe behaviors appropriate to joy and determine when this ritual state supersedes that of mourning. For example, on religious feast days, mourning is forbidden and joy is prescribed. Mourning cannot resume until after the festival. The terms "mourning" and "joy" so employed do not refer to simple emotional states, but rather constitute a discrete set of ritual behaviors. In fact, the types of discrete behaviors that constitute joy (eating, drinking, festal song, anointing with oil, festive attire, sexual relations) all have exact anti-types in the ritual of mourning (fasting, dirges, putting ashes on the head, rending one's garments or putting on sackcloth, sexual continence). Anderson shows that it is not only the rabbinical texts that use the terms "mourning" and "joy" in this way; rabbinic tradition is simply heir to a much older tradition, as witnessed in biblical and other ancient Near Eastern narratives such as the Gilgamesh Epic., Anthropologists have long known that different cultures give expression to their symbol systems through external mediums such as food and clothing, but they have not recognized as readily that cultures also mold emotional life to fit particular patterns of meaning. This prejudice against the role of behaviors in shaping the emotional and cognitive life is especially strong in the study of religion. Gary Anderson's study reveals that, in the Israelite culture (and later, the Jewish culture), mourning and joy as emotional experiences have visible behavioral components for both the individual and the community at large. The best evidence of this can be found in rabbinical texts that prescribe behaviors appropriate to joy and determine when this ritual state supersedes that of mourning. For example, on religious feast days, mourning is forbidden and joy is prescribed. Mourning cannot resume until after the festival. The terms "mourning" and "joy" so employed do not refer to simple emotional states, but rather constitute a discrete set of ritual behaviors. In fact, the types of discrete behaviors that constitute joy (eating, drinking, festal song, anointing with oil, festive attire, sexual relations) all have exact anti-types in the ritual of mourning (fasting, dirges, putting ashes on the head, rending one's garments or putting on sackcloth, sexual continence). Anderson shows that it is not only the rabbinical texts that use the terms "mourning" and "joy" in this way; rabbinic tradition is simply heir to a much older tradition, as witnessed in biblical and other ancient Near Eastern narratives such as the Gilgamesh Epic .
LC Classification Number
BS1199.L27A63 1991

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