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Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religion Book

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Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religion, Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins analyses how laughter has been used as a symbol in myths, rituals and festivals of Western religions, and has thus been inscribed in religious discourse. The Mesopotamian Anu, the Israelite Jahweh, the Greek Dionyso, Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religion
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  • Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religion
  • Written by author Ingvild Saelid Gilhus
  • Published by Taylor & Francis, 1/11/2013
  • Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins analyses how laughter has been used as a symbol in myths, rituals and festivals of Western religions, and has thus been inscribed in religious discourse. The Mesopotamian Anu, the Israelite Jahweh, the Greek Dionyso
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Acknowledgements
Introduction 1
1 The Ancient Near East: Laughter of Derision and Laughter of Regeneration 14
2 Greece: When Laughter Touches the Unthought 28
3 Rome: Critic of Laughter and Critical Laughter 43
4 Early Christianity: Laughter Between Body and Spirit 60
5 Medieval Christianity: Carnival Corpus Christi and Bodily Laughter 78
6 Modernity and the Remythologization of Laughter: Churchly Boredom and Therapeutic Laughter 102
7 Religion of Jokes: Flirtation with the East 122
Conclusion 135
Notes 140
Bibliography 153
Index 167


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