Laughing gods, weeping virgins : laughter in the history of religion / / Ingvild Saelid Gilhus |
Autore | Gilhus Ingvild Saelid |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
Disciplina | 291.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Laughter - Religious aspects
Emotions - Religious aspects |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-134-71768-7
1-280-10918-1 0-585-45343-8 0-203-41160-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Laughter, the Body and Two Fields of Meaning; Theories of Laughter; History of Religions; Three Cultural Contexts of Religious Laughter; 1 the Ancient Near East; Laughter and Trickery; Creation, Change and Control; Gods and Human Beings; Jahweh and the Battle Against Erotic Laughter; Divine Laughter: Its Channels and Consequences; 2 Greece; Cunning Gods/immortal Gods; Laughing Women; Between Comedy and Tragedy; Chaotic Laughter; 3 Rome; 'all This Business of Laughter-raising Is Trivial
Critical Laughter On Tour with the Gods; Animals and Mysteries; The Divine Man and the Mocking of Christianity; Farewell to Laughter; 4 Early Christianity; Church Fathers and Desert Fathers; Weeping Virgins; Did Anyone Laugh?; The Ludicrous Jahweh and the Laughing Christ; Gnostic Mythology; Spiritual Laughter; 5 Medieval Christianity; The Feast of Fools; Deforming the Lord's Supper and Elevating the Ass; Carnival in Religion; Corpus Christi; Embodied Laughter; From Body to Mind; 6 Modernity and the Remythologization of Laughter; Bakhtin and Utopian Laughter; Postmodern Mythology Christ as Clown The Laughing Christian; Jokes of Criticism and Doubt; Rolling in the Aisles; 7 Religion of Jokes; Buddhism Comes Laughing; The Joking Guru; A Key Symbol; Absolute Self/relative World; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451276303321 |
Gilhus Ingvild Saelid | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Laughing gods, weeping virgins : laughter in the history of religion / / Ingvild Saelid Gilhus |
Autore | Gilhus Ingvild Saelid |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
Disciplina | 291.2 |
Soggetto topico |
Laughter - Religious aspects
Emotions - Religious aspects |
ISBN |
1-134-71767-9
1-134-71768-7 1-280-10918-1 0-585-45343-8 0-203-41160-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Laughter, the Body and Two Fields of Meaning; Theories of Laughter; History of Religions; Three Cultural Contexts of Religious Laughter; 1 the Ancient Near East; Laughter and Trickery; Creation, Change and Control; Gods and Human Beings; Jahweh and the Battle Against Erotic Laughter; Divine Laughter: Its Channels and Consequences; 2 Greece; Cunning Gods/immortal Gods; Laughing Women; Between Comedy and Tragedy; Chaotic Laughter; 3 Rome; 'all This Business of Laughter-raising Is Trivial
Critical Laughter On Tour with the Gods; Animals and Mysteries; The Divine Man and the Mocking of Christianity; Farewell to Laughter; 4 Early Christianity; Church Fathers and Desert Fathers; Weeping Virgins; Did Anyone Laugh?; The Ludicrous Jahweh and the Laughing Christ; Gnostic Mythology; Spiritual Laughter; 5 Medieval Christianity; The Feast of Fools; Deforming the Lord's Supper and Elevating the Ass; Carnival in Religion; Corpus Christi; Embodied Laughter; From Body to Mind; 6 Modernity and the Remythologization of Laughter; Bakhtin and Utopian Laughter; Postmodern Mythology Christ as Clown The Laughing Christian; Jokes of Criticism and Doubt; Rolling in the Aisles; 7 Religion of Jokes; Buddhism Comes Laughing; The Joking Guru; A Key Symbol; Absolute Self/relative World; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783894703321 |
Gilhus Ingvild Saelid | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1997 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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