Feminism and the Religious Significance of Laughing Bodies

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-42955-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 467 g

This book identifies the significance of the body through a feminist reconceptualisation of laughter as a means of insight.

It positions itself within the emerging scholarship on religion and humour but distinguishes itself by moving away from the emphasis on humour and instead focuses on the place and role of laughter. Through a feminist reading of laughter, which is grounded in the philosophical and psychological works of William James, this book emphasises the importance of the body to offer an exploration of laughter as a means of insight. In doing so, it challenges the classificatory orders of knowledge by recognising and arguing for the value of the body in the creation of knowledge and understanding. To demonstrate the centrality of the body for insight laughter, and thus the creation of knowledge, this book engages with laughter within three thematic areas: religious experience, gendered experiences of laughter, and the ethics of laughter.

This book will be of interest to students and researchers in religious studies, theology, gender studies, humour studies, philosophy, and the history of ideas.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Graham, Nicole

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Humor
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.