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God Mocks

Terry Lindvall

2015384 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2015
first published
  • 2015New York University Press · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9781479886739
  • 2016New York University Press · 384 pages · ENGISBN 9781479851911

Lindvall chronicles the evolution of religious satire, from the biblical wit and humor of the Hebrew prophets through the Roman Era and the Middle Ages all the way up to the present. He explains that there is a method to the madness of these mockers: true satire, he argues, is at its heart moral outrage expressed in laughter, but there are remarkable differences in how these religious satirists express their outrage.

How it feels

Emotional toneIronic
HumourWry

How it reads

ComplexityLayered
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