Divine play, sacred laughter, and spiritual understanding [[electronic resource] /] / by Patrick Laude |
Autore | Laude Patrick <1958-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina | 202/.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Laughter - Religious aspects
Wit and humor - Religious aspects Religion |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-36874-1
9786611368746 1-4039-8058-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Mâyâ and the Divine Treasure; 2 Ambiguity of the Demiurge; 3 Dionysus, Shiva, Osiris; 4 Divine Troublemakers; 5 Coyote and Kin; 6 Reading the Trickster's Footsteps; 7 Thundering Clowns; 8 Spiritual Laughter; 9 Fools for Christ's Sake; 10 The People of Blame; 11 Fools on a Tightrope; 12 Epilogue: Cracks of Light; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450562603321 |
Laude Patrick <1958-> | ||
New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Divine play, sacred laughter, and spiritual understanding [[electronic resource] /] / by Patrick Laude |
Autore | Laude Patrick <1958-> |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
Disciplina | 202/.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Laughter - Religious aspects
Wit and humor - Religious aspects Religion |
ISBN |
1-281-36874-1
9786611368746 1-4039-8058-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Mâyâ and the Divine Treasure; 2 Ambiguity of the Demiurge; 3 Dionysus, Shiva, Osiris; 4 Divine Troublemakers; 5 Coyote and Kin; 6 Reading the Trickster's Footsteps; 7 Thundering Clowns; 8 Spiritual Laughter; 9 Fools for Christ's Sake; 10 The People of Blame; 11 Fools on a Tightrope; 12 Epilogue: Cracks of Light; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784158903321 |
Laude Patrick <1958-> | ||
New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 | ||
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 |
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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Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times [[electronic resource] ] : epistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences / / edited by Albrecht Classen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (863 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93354 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ClassenAlbrecht |
Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
Soggetto topico |
Laughter in literature
Humor in literature Laughter - History Wit and humor - History Laughter - Philosophy Laughter - Religious aspects Wit and humor, Medieval Wit and humor - History and criticism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-88515-4
9786612885150 3-11-024548-5 |
Classificazione | GF 6377 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Laughter as an Expression of Human Natur in theMiddle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Literary, Historical, Theological, Philosophical, and Psychological Reflections. Also an Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laughter in Procopius's Wars -- Chapter 2. "Does God Really Laugh?" - Appropriate and Inappropriate Descriptions of God in Islamic Traditionalist Theology -- Chapter 3. Laughter in Beowulf: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Group Identity Formation -- Chapter 4. The Parodia sacra Problem and Medieval Comic Studies -- Chapter 5. Women's Laughter and Gender Politics in Medieval Conduct Discourse -- Chapter 6. Pushing Decorum: Uneasy Laughter in Heinrich von dem Türlîn's Diu Crône -- Chapter 7. Laughter and the Comedic in a Religious Text: The Example of the Cantigas de Santa Maria -- Chapter 8. The Son Rebelled and So the Father Made Man Alone: Ridicule and Boundary Maintenance in the Nizzahon Vetus -- Chapter 9. Laughing at the Beast: The Judensau: Anti Jewish Propaganda and Humor from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period -- Chapter 10. Yes . . . but was it funny? Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi, and Giovanni Boccaccio -- Chapter 11. Curses and Laughter in Medieval Italian Comic Poetry: The Ethics of Humor in Rustico Filippi's Invectives -- Chapter 12. Tromdhámh Guaire: a Context for Laughter and Audience in Early Modern Ireland -- Chapter 13. Humorous Transgression in the Non Conformist fabliaux Genre: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Three Comic Tales -- Chapter 14. Chaucerian Comedy: Troilus and Criseyde -- Chapter 15. Laughing in and Laughing at the Old French Fabliaux -- Chapter 16. Laughter and Medieval Stalls -- Chapter 17. Vox populi e voce professionis: Processus juris joco serius. Esoteric Humor and the Incommensurability of Laughter -- Chapter 18. "So I thought as I Stood, To Mirth Us Among": The Function of Laughter in The Second Shepherds' Play -- Chapter 19. Laughing in Late Medieval Verse (mæren) and Prose (Schwänke) Narratives: Epistemological Strategies and Hermeneutic Explorations -- Chapter 20. The Workings of Desire: Panurge and the Dogs -- Chapter 21. Laughing Out Loud in the Heptaméron: A Reassessment of Marguerite de Navarre's Ambivalent Humor -- Chapter 22. You had to be there: The Elusive Humor of the Sottie -- Chapter 23. Sacred Parody in Robert Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (1592) -- Chapter 24. The Comedy of the Shrew: Theorizing Humor in Early Modern Netherlandish Art -- Chapter 25. The Comic Personas of Milton's Prolusion VI: Negotiating Masculine Identity Through Self Directed Humor -- Chapter 26. Ridentum dicere verum (Using Laughter to Speak the Truth): Laughter and the Language of the Early Modern Clown "Pickelhering" in German Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century (1675-1700) -- Chapter 27. Andreae's ludibrium: Menippean Satire in the Chymische Hochzeit -- Chapter 28. The Comic Power of Illusion Allusion: Laughter, La Devineresse, and the Scandal of a Glorious Century -- Chapter 29. Laughing at Credulity and Superstition in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455979803321 |
New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Laughter in the Middle Ages and early modern times [[electronic resource] ] : epistemology of a fundamental human behavior, its meaning, and consequences / / edited by Albrecht Classen |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (863 p.) |
Disciplina | 809/.93354 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ClassenAlbrecht |
Collana | Fundamentals of medieval and early modern culture |
Soggetto topico |
Laughter in literature
Humor in literature Laughter - History Wit and humor - History Laughter - Philosophy Laughter - Religious aspects Wit and humor, Medieval Wit and humor - History and criticism |
Soggetto non controllato | Laughter / in Literature |
ISBN |
1-282-88515-4
9786612885150 3-11-024548-5 |
Classificazione | GF 6377 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Laughter as an Expression of Human Natur in theMiddle Ages and the Early Modern Period: Literary, Historical, Theological, Philosophical, and Psychological Reflections. Also an Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laughter in Procopius's Wars -- Chapter 2. "Does God Really Laugh?" - Appropriate and Inappropriate Descriptions of God in Islamic Traditionalist Theology -- Chapter 3. Laughter in Beowulf: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Group Identity Formation -- Chapter 4. The Parodia sacra Problem and Medieval Comic Studies -- Chapter 5. Women's Laughter and Gender Politics in Medieval Conduct Discourse -- Chapter 6. Pushing Decorum: Uneasy Laughter in Heinrich von dem Türlîn's Diu Crône -- Chapter 7. Laughter and the Comedic in a Religious Text: The Example of the Cantigas de Santa Maria -- Chapter 8. The Son Rebelled and So the Father Made Man Alone: Ridicule and Boundary Maintenance in the Nizzahon Vetus -- Chapter 9. Laughing at the Beast: The Judensau: Anti Jewish Propaganda and Humor from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period -- Chapter 10. Yes . . . but was it funny? Cecco Angiolieri, Rustico Filippi, and Giovanni Boccaccio -- Chapter 11. Curses and Laughter in Medieval Italian Comic Poetry: The Ethics of Humor in Rustico Filippi's Invectives -- Chapter 12. Tromdhámh Guaire: a Context for Laughter and Audience in Early Modern Ireland -- Chapter 13. Humorous Transgression in the Non Conformist fabliaux Genre: A Bakhtinian Analysis of Three Comic Tales -- Chapter 14. Chaucerian Comedy: Troilus and Criseyde -- Chapter 15. Laughing in and Laughing at the Old French Fabliaux -- Chapter 16. Laughter and Medieval Stalls -- Chapter 17. Vox populi e voce professionis: Processus juris joco serius. Esoteric Humor and the Incommensurability of Laughter -- Chapter 18. "So I thought as I Stood, To Mirth Us Among": The Function of Laughter in The Second Shepherds' Play -- Chapter 19. Laughing in Late Medieval Verse (mæren) and Prose (Schwänke) Narratives: Epistemological Strategies and Hermeneutic Explorations -- Chapter 20. The Workings of Desire: Panurge and the Dogs -- Chapter 21. Laughing Out Loud in the Heptaméron: A Reassessment of Marguerite de Navarre's Ambivalent Humor -- Chapter 22. You had to be there: The Elusive Humor of the Sottie -- Chapter 23. Sacred Parody in Robert Greene's Groatsworth of Wit (1592) -- Chapter 24. The Comedy of the Shrew: Theorizing Humor in Early Modern Netherlandish Art -- Chapter 25. The Comic Personas of Milton's Prolusion VI: Negotiating Masculine Identity Through Self Directed Humor -- Chapter 26. Ridentum dicere verum (Using Laughter to Speak the Truth): Laughter and the Language of the Early Modern Clown "Pickelhering" in German Literature of the Late Seventeenth Century (1675-1700) -- Chapter 27. Andreae's ludibrium: Menippean Satire in the Chymische Hochzeit -- Chapter 28. The Comic Power of Illusion Allusion: Laughter, La Devineresse, and the Scandal of a Glorious Century -- Chapter 29. Laughing at Credulity and Superstition in the Long Eighteenth Century -- Backmatter |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780719403321 |
New York, : Walter de Gruyter, 2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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