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Humour and Religion: Challenges and Ambiguities de Associate Professor Hans Geybels

Humour and Religion: Challenges and Ambiguities

Editat de Associate Professor Hans Geybels, Associate Professor Walter Van Herck
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 ian 2011
Humour and Religion highlights the importance and functioning of humour in different world religions. Exploring the major religious cultures, the book looks at more constructive aspects to the relation between humour and religion, with humour seen as a pathway to spiritual wisdom.Exploring how religions contain (implicit) references to the finitude and relativity of the human condition, and why humour and spirituality fit well together, contributors discuss what the meaning of humour in different religions is - Did it evolve historically? How does it function? How is humour related to the realization of spiritual goals? Looking at religions from an external perspective, the contributors then analyze the way religion interacts with humour in society. How does a religion respond to sarcasm and irony? Are there limits to mockery and making fun of believers? Does humour have a pacifying effect when societal tensions run high or does it intensify the sensitivities? This volume will provide essays of value to scholars in the various religions and literatures covered.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441163134
ISBN-10: 1441163131
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 1
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Demonstrates, in a scholarly context, the importance of humor both in and for religions.

Notă biografică

Hans Geybels is Associate Professor at the Department of Pastoral Theology in the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. Walter Van Herck is Associate Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.

Cuprins

Preface Part I: Religious Laughter 1. The Redemptive Power of Humor in Religion. An Introductory Overview, Hans Geybels (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) 2. Humor as Practical Wisdom, Johan Taels (University of Antwerp, Belgium)3. Humor in Hinduism, Koenraad Elst (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) 4. Laughing Priests in the Atsuta Shrine Festival, Elaine Gerbert (University of Kansas, USA) 5. Humor on Religion in the Greco-Roman World, Paul Schulten (Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands) 6. Transferring Aristophanes' Religious Registers in Modern Greek and English Versions, Vicky Manteli (University of Peloponnese, Greece) 7. Jewish Humor, Ludo Abicht (University of Antwerp, Belguim) 8. Why Did Ancient Gods Laugh? Humor in the History of Religions, Ingvild Saelid Gilhus (University of Bergen, Norway)9. Homo Byzantinus Ridens: Humor in Byzantinium, Przemyslaw Marciniak (University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland) 10. Being Serious about Laughter: The Case of Medieval Biblical Plays, Jolanta Rzegocka (Tischner European University, Poland) 11. The Muslim Sense of Humor, Ulrich Marzolph (Georg-Augustu University, Gottingen, Germany) Part II: Laughing at Religion 12. Humor, Religion and Society. An Introduction, Walter Van Herck (University of Antwerp, Belgium) 13. To Laugh at God? Iconic History of the Limits Not to Be Passed, François Boespflug (University of Strasbourg, France) 14. The Fool and the Path to Spiritual Insight, Jessica Milner Davis (University of Sydney, Australia) 15. Humor, Religion, and Politics in Greek Cartoons: Symbiosis or Conflict? Villy Tsakona (University of Iannina and the University of Patras, Greece) Conclusion Bibliography Index

Recenzii

There are... some excellent contributions such as Koenraad Elst's "Humour in Hinduism" which is rich in empirical detail and includes a discussion of the mockery of and satires on Hinduism and of Sikhs and Brahmins.
A welcome gift to philosophers, theologians and religious scientists alike.
Religion has many a times been perceived as a somber affair. Many traditions advocate donning a serious face during religious observances. What is the relation between humour and religion? This book makes an attempt to answer this question through a careful study of various religious traditions like Judaism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and even some religious literature and plays. This anthology is divided into two parts: religious laughter and laughing at religion. Caricature of religion through cartoons and the consequent politics is also examined through an analysis of Greek history. That guilelessness and simplicity are core spiritual values and spirituality has a close connection with humour is well established through this work.