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Terry Lindvall - God Mocks - 9781479886739 - V9781479886739
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God Mocks

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Description for God Mocks Hardcover. Num Pages: 384 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 29. Weight in Grams: 718.

Winner of the 2016 Religious Communication Association Book of the Year Award
In God Mocks, Terry Lindvall ventures into the muddy and dangerous realm of religious satire, chronicling its evolution 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 takes the reader on a journey through the work of Chaucer and his Canterbury Tales, Cervantes, Jonathan Swift, and Mark Twain, and ending with the mediated entertainment of modern wags like Stephen Colbert.
Lindvall finds that there is a method to ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781479886739
SKU
V9781479886739
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
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About Terry Lindvall
Terry Lindvall is C. S. Lewis Chair of Communication and Christian Thought at Virginia Wesleyan College. He is the author of Sanctuary Cinema: Origins of the Christian Film Industry and God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert.

Reviews for God Mocks
Lindvalls prose is elegant, and he is a fine guide on this rollicking, significant tour de force that belongs in all academic literature.
Catholic Library World
God Mocksleads readers through the comic savagery that believers have perfected over the centuries...Lindvall's book unfurls a delightfully variegated tapestry.
Christianity Today
Readers of Lindvall will certainly understand satire better, ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for God Mocks


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