Holy laughter; essays on religion in the comic perspective,

Holy laughter; essays on religion in the comic perspective, edited by M. Conrad Hyers.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hyers, M. Conrad
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, Seabury Press [1969]
Subjects:	Wit and humor > Religious aspects.

Table of Contents:

The comic profanation of the sacred, by M. C. Hyers
The humanity of comedy, by W. F. Lynch
The bias of comedy and the narrow escape into faith, by N. A. Scott, Jr
The clown as the lord of disorder, by W. M. Zucker
The clown in contemporary art, by S. H. Miller
The rhetoric of Christian comedy, by B. Ulanov
Christian faith and the social comedy, by P. L. Berger
Humour and faith, by R. Niebuhr
The traditional roots of Jewish humour, by I. Knox
The humour of Christ, by E. Trueblood
Eutrapelia: A forgotten virtue, by H. Rahner
Zen humour, by R. H. Blyth
The dialectic of the sacred and the comic, by M. C. Hyers
On being with it: An afterword, by C. Walsh
Appendix: Christian sobriety, by R. Barclay.