Leading scholars analyze the importance and functioning of humor in different world religions.

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“Between Heaven and Mirth will make any reader smile. . . . Father Martin reminds us that happiness is the good God’s own goal for us.” —Timothy M. Dola

This book traces the development of religious comedy and leverages that history to justify today’s uses of religious humor in all of its manifestations, inclu