Holy laughter
Subtitle: essays on religion in the comic perspective
By: edited by M. Conrad Hyers.
Publisher: Seabury Press
Published: 1969
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Wit and humor -- Religious aspects.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The comic profanation of the sacred, by M. C. Hyers.; title: The humanity of comedy, by W. F. Lynch.; title: The bias of comedy and the narrow escape into faith, by N. A. Scott, Jr.; title: The clown as the lord of disorder, by W. M. Zucker.; title: The clown in contemporary art, by S. H. Miller.; title: The rhetoric of Christian comedy, by B. Ulanov.; title: Christian faith and the social comedy, by P. L. Berger.; title: Humour and faith, by R. Niebuhr.; title: The traditional roots of Jewish humour, by I. Knox.; title: The humour of Christ, by E. Trueblood.; title: Eutrapelia: A forgotten virtue, by H. Rahner.; title: Zen humour, by R. H. Blyth.; title: The dialectic of the sacred and the comic, by M. C. Hyers.; title: On being with it: An afterword, by C. Walsh.; title: Appendix: Christian sobriety, by R. Barclay.