دانلود کتاب Laughing Gods, Weeping Virgins: Laughter in the History of Religion

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Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 8
INTRODUCTION......Page 10
Laughter, the body and two fields of meaning......Page 11
Theories of laughter......Page 14
History of religions......Page 16
Three cultural contexts of religious laughter......Page 18
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: LAUGHTER OF DERISION AND LAUGHTER OF REGENERATION......Page 23
Creation, change and control......Page 27
Gods and human beings......Page 30
Jahweh and the battle against erotic laughter......Page 31
Divine laughter: its channels and consequences......Page 35
GREECE: WHEN LAUGHTER TOUCHES THE UNTHOUGHT......Page 37
Cunning gods/immortal gods......Page 38
Laughing women......Page 42
Between comedy and tragedy......Page 46
Chaotic laughter......Page 50
ROME: CRITIC OF LAUGHTER AND CRITICAL LAUGHTER......Page 52
\'All this business of laughter-raising is trivial\'......Page 53
Critical laughter......Page 55
On tour with the gods......Page 57
Animals and mysteries......Page 60
The divine man and the mocking of Christianity......Page 64
Farewell to laughter......Page 67
EARLY CHRISTIANITY: LAUGHTER BETWEEN BODY AND SPIRIT......Page 69
Church Fathers and Desert Fathers......Page 70
Weeping virgins......Page 75
Did anyone laugh?......Page 77
The ludicrous Jahweh and the laughing Christ......Page 78
Gnostic mythology......Page 82
Spiritual laughter......Page 85
MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY: CARNIVAL, CORPUS CHRISTI AND BODILY LAUGHTER......Page 87
The Feast of Fools......Page 89
Deforming the Lord\'s Supper and elevating the ass......Page 93
Carnival in religion......Page 96
Corpus Christi......Page 97
Embodied laughter......Page 105
From body to mind......Page 108
MODERNITY AND THE REMYTHOLOGIZATION OF LAUGHTER: CHURCHLY BOREDOM AND THERAPEUTIC LAUGHTER......Page 111
Bakhtin and utopian laughter......Page 112
Postmodern mythology......Page 116
Christ as clown......Page 118
The laughing Christian......Page 121
Jokes of criticism and doubt......Page 126
Rolling in the aisles......Page 128
RELIGION OF JOKES: FLIRTATION WITH THE EAST......Page 131
The joking guru......Page 134
A key symbol......Page 138
Absolute self/relative world......Page 141
CONCLUSION......Page 144
Notes......Page 149
Bibliography......Page 162
Index......Page 176