Humour and religion : challenges and ambiguities /

Humour and Religion highlights the importance and functioning of humour in different world religions. Exploring the major religious cultures, the book looks at more constructive aspects to the relation between humour and religion, with humour seen as a pathway to spiritual wisdom. Exploring how reli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Geybels, Hans, 1971-, Herck, Walter van, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum International Pub. Group, ©2011.
Colección:Continuum religious studies.
Temas:
Wit and humor > Religious aspects > Congresses.
Humour > Aspect religieux > Congrès.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Gaia & Earth Energies.
Wit and humor > Religious aspects
Religion
Humor
Humor.
Religion.
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1. The Redemptive Power of Humour in Religion / Hans Geybels
  • chapter 2. Humour as Practical Wisdom / Johan Taels
  • chapter 3. Humour in Hinduism / Koenraad Elst
  • chapter 4. Laughing Priests in the Atsuta Shrine Festival / Elaine Gethert
  • chapter 5. Humour on Religion in the Greco-Roman World / Paul Schulten
  • chapter 6. Transferring Aristophanes' Religious Registers into Modern Greek and English: The Case of (Re)Constructing the Religious Humour of Aristophanes' Comedy Acharnians in Greek and English Target-Texts / Vicky Manteli
  • chapter 7. Laughing in and at the Mirror: Jewish Humour and Hassidic Wisdom / Ludo Abicht
  • chapter 8. Why Did Jesus Laugh? Laughing in Biblical-Demiurgical Texts / Ingvild Seelid Gilhus
  • chapter 9. Laughing Against All the Odds. Some Observations on Humour, Laughter and Religion in Byzantium / Przenzyslaw Marciniak
  • chapter 10. Being Serious about Laughter: The Case of Early Modern Biblical Plays / Jolanta Rzegocka
  • chapter 11. The Muslim Sense of Humour / Ulrich Marzolph
  • chapter 12. Humour, Religion and Vulnerability / Walter Van Herck
  • chapter 13. Laughing at God. The Pictorial History of Boundaries Not to be Crossed / Francois Bcespflug
  • chapter 14. The Fool and the Path to Spiritual Insight / Jessica Milner Davis
  • chapter 15. Humour, Religion and Politics in Greek Cartoons: Symbiosis or Conflict? / Villy Tsakona.

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