Leading scholars analyze the importance and functioning of humor in different world religions.

This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, inclu

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This timely and lively introduction to exploring the intersection of religion and humour evaluates existing scholarship and methodologies within the field, argu