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9780415165327

Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415165327

  • ISBN10:

    0415165326

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-10-01
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

"Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins" provides an engaging analysis of how laughter has been used as a symbol in myths, rituals and festivals of Western religions. Ingvild Saelid Gilhus argues that laughter is a central human phenomenon. Humans use laughter as a means to experience the world, categorize its forms and judge its values. Laughter is frequently used as a characteristic of the divine. In this comprehensive study Gilhus examines the relationship between corporeal human laughter and spiritual divine laughter from Classical antiquity to the Christian West and the modern era. She offers an original and pertinent exploration of a universal human phenomenon, and its significance for the development of religions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Laughter, The Body and Two Fields of Meaning
Theories of Laughter History of Religions
Three Cultural Contexts of Religious Laughter
Ancient Near East
Laughter of Derision and Laughter of Regeneration
Laughter and Trickery Creation, Change and Control Gods and Human Beings
Jahweh and the Battle against Erotic
Laughter Divine Laughter: Its Channels and Consequences
Greece
When Laughter Touches the Unthought, Cunning Gods/Immortal Gods
Laughing Women Between Comedy and Tragedy
Chaotic Laughter
Rome
Critic of Laughter and Critical Laughter
'All this Business of Laughter-Raising is Trivial'
Critical Laughter On Tour with the God Animals and Mysteries
The Divine Man and the Mocking of Christianity Farewell to Laughter
Early Christianity
Laughter Between Body and Spirit Church Fathers and Desert Fathers
Weeping Virgins Did Anyone Laugh?
The Ludicrous Jahweh and the Laughing Christ
Gnostic Mythology Spiritual Laughter
Medieval Christianity
Carnival, Corpus Christi and Bodily
Laughter The Feast of Fools Deforming the Lord's Supper and Elevating the Ass Carnival in Religion Corpus Christi Embodied
Laughter From Body to Mind
Modernity and the Remytologization of Laughter: Churchly Boredom and Therapeutic
Laughter Bakhtin and Utopian
Laughter Postmodern Mythology Christ as Clown
The Laughing Christian Jokes of Criticism and Doubt Rolling in the Aisles
Religion of Jokes
Flirtation with the East Buddhism Comes Laughing
The Joking Guru
A Key Symbol Absolute Self/Relative World
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
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