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Christianity and the Triumph of Humor: From Dante to David Javerbaum book cover

1st Edition

Christianity and the Triumph of Humor From Dante to David Javerbaum

By Bernard Schweizer Copyright 2020
254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge

254 Pages
by Routledge
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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 that regulating humor is futile and counterproductive, illustrating this point with a host of comedic examples. Humor is a powerful rhetorical tool for those who advocate and for those who satirize religious... Read more

Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction: The Way, the Truth, and the Laugh; Part I: Ideological and Theological Coordinates of Humor; 1 Ideology and Laughter: Against the Liberal Paradigm of Humor; 2 Theology and Laughter: Against the Confessional Paradigm of Humor; Part II:  Religious Comedy and Christianity: Historical Developments and the Contemporary Scene; 3 A Chronicle of Triumph: Religious Comedy from Dante to Javerbaum; 4 Varieties of Religious Irreverence: Contemporary Religious Comedy from Mark Lowry to South Park; Conclusion; Epilogue: Humor in Non-Christian Traditions; Key Terms and Definitions; Bibliography; Appendix

Biography

Bernard Schweizer is a Professor of English in the Department of English, Philosophy, and Foreign Languages at Long Island University, USA. He specialises in humor studies, heresy studies, travel studies and gender studies and has written multiple articles and books in these areas, including Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism (2010).



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