Chapter published in:
Humour in the Beginning: Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism
Edited by Roald Dijkstra and Paul van der Velde
[Topics in Humor Research 10] 2022
► pp. 274–300

Humour in religion

A Protean phenomenon

| KU Leuven
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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 27 October 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/thr.10.19dij
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