Anne Ingvild Sælid Gilhus
List of John Benjamins publications for which Anne Ingvild Sælid Gilhus plays a role.
Article
Derisive laughter and religious identity in ancient Christianity Humour in the Beginning: Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism, Dijkstra, Roald and Paul van der Velde (eds.), pp. 33–46 | Chapter
2022 Polemic and mockery were part of Christian identity-making, especially in apologies and heresiologies, where boundaries were created against pagans and other Christians. In this paper, the focus is on the use of derisive laughter in the Nag Hammadi texts. This chapter presents a survey of four… read more