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• Publisher : A&C Black
• File Size : 27,5 Mb
• Release Date : 17 March 2011

Leading scholars analyze the importance and functioning of humor in different world religions.

• Publisher : State University of New York Press
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• Release Date : 27 May 1999

CHOICE2000 Outstanding Academic Title Comedy, tragedy, and religion have been intertwined since ancient Greece, where comedy and tragedy arose as religious rituals. This groundbreaking book analyzes the worldviews of tragedy

• Publisher : NYU Press
• File Size : 47,5 Mb
• Release Date : 11 April 2017

Sacred centers -- The difference race makes: Native American Religions, Hinduism, and Judaism -- American Christianity, part 1: backwards neighbors -- American Christianity, part 2: American Christianities as dangerous threats -- Stigma,

• Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
• File Size : 49,6 Mb
• Release Date : 15 October 2022

Humour in the Beginning presents a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen in-depth case-studies on the role of humour – both benign and blasphemous, elitist and ordinary, orthodox and heterodox – in early, formative

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 50,7 Mb
• Release Date : 17 July 2019

This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, including irreverent jokes. It argues

• Publisher : Harper Collins
• File Size : 21,7 Mb
• Release Date : 04 October 2011

“Between Heaven and Mirth will make any reader smile. . . . Father Martin reminds us that happiness is the good God’s own goal for us.” —Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New

• Publisher : A&C Black
• File Size : 43,6 Mb
• Release Date : 17 March 2011

Leading scholars analyze the importance and functioning of humor in different world religions.

• Publisher : One World
• File Size : 26,5 Mb
• Release Date : 15 November 2016

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight

• Publisher : Lutterworth Press
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• Release Date : 26 February 2009

Abraham and Sarah were presented with a paradox when God told them they would have a son in their old age. Paradox in the Old Testament plays an important part

• Publisher : NYU Press
• File Size : 45,9 Mb
• Release Date : 11 April 2017

A new world of religious satire illuminated through the layers of religion and humor that make up the The Simpsons, South Park and Family Guy. Drawing on the worldviews put