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“Translating Humor, Translating God: Beckett’s En attendant Godot in Franco’s Spain”
by Will Carr and Corry Cropper
“Is Judaism Funny?: A Historical Investigation”
by Jeremy Dauber
“’Rire est le propre de l’homme’: Humor, Humanism, and Christianity in Renaissance France”
by Chris Flood
“’Quiero seguirle el humor para entretenerme un rato’: Levity in Religious Plays by Spanish Nuns”
by Valerie Hegstrom & Anna-Lisa Halling
“From Homer to Homer: Divine Laughter from The Iliad to The Simpsons”
by Anita Houck
“Why Use Others to Take Abraham’s Soul?: Is God a Comic Character in the Testament of Abraham?”
by Jared Ludlow
“Faithfulness to the Joke: Theological Reflections on the Gospel of Mark”
by Jason Kerr
“Laughing at the Human Condition: Humor in Sinitic Buddhism”
by Rick McBride
“On Laughter, Joy, and Spiritual Transcendence: Laughing with Clarice Lispector”
by Rex Nielson
“Does God Have a Sense of Humor?”
by Simran Jeet Singh
“Finding Christian Identity and Sociality Through Comedy (A Sometimes Awkward Personal Journey)”
by Kerry Soper