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Author Hyers, M. Conrad.

Title Holy laughter; essays on religion in the comic perspective / edited by M. Conrad Hyers.

Publication Info. New York : Seabury Press, [1969]

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 Moore Stacks  PN6149.M6 H9    Available  ---
Description vi, 264 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents The comic profanation of the sacred, by M. C. Hyers.--The humanity of comedy, by W. F. Lynch.--The bias of comedy and the narrow escape into faith, by N. A. Scott, Jr.--The clown as the lord of disorder, by W. M. Zucker.--The clown in contemporary art, by S. H. Miller.--The rhetoric of Christian comedy, by B. Ulanov.--Christian faith and the social comedy, by P. L. Berger.--Humour and faith, by R. Niebuhr.--The traditional roots of Jewish humour, by I. Knox.--The humour of Christ, by E. Trueblood.--Eutrapelia: A forgotten virtue, by H. Rahner.--Zen humour, by R. H. Blyth.--The dialectic of the sacred and the comic, by M. C. Hyers.--On being with it: An afterword, by C. Walsh.--Appendix: Christian sobriety, by R. Barclay.
Subject Wit and humor -- Religious aspects.
Wit and humor -- Religious aspects.
ISBN 6.95