Feminism and the Religious Significance of Laughing Bodies

This book identifies the significance of the body through a feminist reconceptualisation of laughter as a means of insight and will be of interest to students and researchers in Religious Studies, Theology, Gender Studies, Humour Studies, Philosophy, and the History of Ideas.

Autorentext

Nicole Graham is a Lecturer in Ethics and Values at King's College London, UK. She has written on the ethics of laughter during game-playing and the acceptability of laughter in the early Christian tradition. She is the Media Officer of the Humour and Religion Network.

Inhalt

1. Laughter: The History of an Idea 2. Insight Laughter, William James, and the Fringe of Consciousness 3. Laughter and Religious Experience: Osho and Beyond 4. Herstorical Laughter 5. The Laugh of the Feminist 6. Ethical Laughter