Sacred Laughter
Humor and Laughter in Religious, Cultural, and Mythic Traditions
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 2 April 2026
- ISBN 9781666973044
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 234x158x20 mm
- Weight 500 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 13 bw illus 692
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Short description:
This book contains multiple essays from experts on various faith, religious, and mythic traditions to describe how humor was discussed, addressed, and portrayed in those specific traditions.
MoreLong description:
This anthology explores the intersection of humor and laughter with various faith, religious, and mythic traditions.
Each chapter covers a unique case where humor and laughter have intersected with some part of a religious, cultural, or mythic tradition and explores how and why laughter and humor are important in those stories. The contributors also explore how the role of humor and laughter shaped and influenced the various religions, cultures, or myths and what that might mean to the parent society. Each author also adds a bit of reflection on how they think their work is relevant to issues of humor in our modern world.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Editor's Introduction: Sacred Laughter
Chapter One: The Wheel of Gelastic Fortune: The Turnings of Monastic Mirth
Terry Lindvall and Christian Palmisano
Chapter Two: The Transformative Nature of the Sun-god's Laughter in Ancient Egyptian Religious Texts
LaReina Hingson
Chapter Three: The Archfigure Trickster: The Role of Humor in Functional Models of the Trickster-Civilizer's Actions in North American Indian Myths
Nikol Danisova
Chapter Four: Humor in Islam
Fatima Ahmed and Sundus Mohamed
Chapter Five: Buddhism, Humor, and Laughter
Richard Gardner
Chapter Six: Transformations of a Japanese Deity of Dance: Humor, Ritual, and the Question How to Reach the Gods
Bernard Scheid
Chapter Seven: The Sanctity of the Funny: Christian Clown Ministries and the Paradox of the Profane
Liz Sills
Chapter Eight: Serious Buddha, laughing Krishna? Some aspects of fun and games in Hinduism and Buddhism
Paul van Der Velde
Chapter Nine: 'The Gods live like Us': Sacred Humor in Africa
Benson Igboin
Chapter Ten: Boiled Shoe, Enamoured Cow and a Buddha in a Fur: Buddhist Humour in Mongolian Communities
Alevtina Solovyeva and Anastasiya Fiadotava
Chapter Eleven: Laughing to Move the Gods: The Transformative Power of Humor in Shinto
Kaitlyn Ugoretz
Editor's Epilogue
About the Contributors
