Humour in religion
A Protean phenomenon
Article outline
- 1.Approaches and basic principles
- 1.1Humour and religion
- 1.2The characteristics of humour: Past and present
- 1.3Humour and laughter
- 1.4Defining and analysing humour
- 2.The gains of comparison
- 2.1The incongruous nature of the divine
- 2.2The superiority of divine humour
- 2.3The didactics of humour
- 2.4Religious humour for fun
- 2.5Not too much, nor too loud
- 2.6Humour against religion: A category on its own
- 2.7The gap between rule and reality
- Humour as a Protean phenomenon: The pre-eminence of context
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