The feast of fools
Subtitle: a theological essay on festivity and fantasy
By: by Harvey Cox.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Festivals.; Fantasy.; Theology -- History -- 20th century.
Description: The author defines festivity as the capacity for genuine revelry and joyous celebration and fantasy as the faculty for envisioning radically alternative life situations. He proposes that a revival of both feast and fantasy will rejuvenate modern spirtuality by imitating the medieval Feast of Fools, where spirtual life was celebrated while political church traditions were socially mocked and evaluated.
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