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Publication details [#58873]
Feltmate, David. 2014. The sacred comedy: The problems and possibilities of Peter Berger's Theory of Humor. Humor 27 (4) : 531–549.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper ponders the role of humor in Berger's overarching theoretical framework, criticizing his arguments for their theological elements and providing a correction from the sociologies of humor and knowledge. It also weighs Berger's possible contributions to a sociology of religious humor.