God Mocks
Subtitle: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781479886739
Subjects: Satire, history and criticism; Art and religion
Description: Lindvall chronicles the evolution of religious satire, from the biblical wit and humor of the Hebrew prophets through the Roman Era and the Middle Ages all the way up to the present. He explains that there is a method to the madness of these mockers: true satire, he argues, is at its heart moral outrage expressed in laughter, but there are remarkable differences in how these religious satirists express their outrage.