1st Edition
Feminism and the Religious Significance of Laughing Bodies
By Nicole Graham
Copyright 2024
196 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
196 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book identifies the significance of the body through a feminist reconceptualisation of laughter as a means of insight.
It positions itself within the emerging scholarship on religion and humour but distinguishes itself by moving away from the emphasis on humour and instead focuses on the place and role of laughter. Through a feminist reading of laughter, which is grounded in the... Read more
1. Laughter: The History of an Idea 2. Insight Laughter, William James, and the Fringe of Consciousness 3. Laughter and Religious Experience: Osho and Beyond 4. Herstorical Laughter 5. The Laugh of the Feminist 6. Ethical Laughter
Biography
Nicole Graham is a Lecturer in Ethics and Values at King’s College London, UK. She has written on the ethics of laughter during game-playing and the acceptability of laughter in the early Christian tradition. She is the Media Officer of the Humour and Religion Network.
