A Time to Laugh: The Religion of Humor

by Donald Capps

Book Overview

Religion is impoverished when it fails to reveal and develop the humerous aspect of itself. Humor is a part of the tough tissue of religion that binds our hearts together in love, worship, or fellowship/community. Often, however, humor is negatively affected by religion, or religious people are allergic to humor.

Capps, who is dean of studies in religion and psychology in the United States, tries in this book to show the ways in which humor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826418570
• ISBN13: 9780826418579
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 8.5"