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A Time to Laugh

Name: A Time to Laugh
Author: Donald Capps
ISBN: 9780826416414

by Donald Capps

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Overview

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. In A Time to Laugh, author Donald Capps argues that religion is diminished when it fails to understand and embrace its own historical connection-much of it dating to biblical days-to humor itself.

About the Author, Donald Capps

Donald Capps is Professor of Pastoral Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary. His books include Jesus: A Psychological Biography, Freud and Freudians on Religion, Men, Religion, and Melancholia, and Social Phobia: Alleviating Anxiety in an Age of Self-promotion. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.