Scholars of literature, religion, and other fields explore the importance and functioning of humor in different world religions, and of laughing at religion. Among their topics are humor as
practical wisdom, humor in Hinduism, reconstructing the religious humor of Aristophanes' comedy Acharnians in Greek and English target-texts, Jewish humor and Hassidic wisdom, Jesus laughing in
Biblical-demiurgical texts, being serious about laughter in early modern Biblical plays, the Muslim sense of humor, the pictorial history of boundaries not to be crossed when laughing at God,
and the fool and the path to spiritual insight. The 15 essays are from an April 2009 congress in Antwerp. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
