God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert

by Terry Lindvall

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479886734
• ISBN13: 9781479886739
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"