Roald Dijkstra

List of John Benjamins publications in which Roald Dijkstra is involved.

Title

Humour in the Beginning: Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism

Edited by Roald Dijkstra and Paul van der Velde

Humour in the Beginning presents a multidisciplinary collection of fourteen in-depth case-studies on the role of humour – both benign and blasphemous, elitist and ordinary, orthodox and heterodox – in early, formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and (late-antique) Judaism. Its… read more

[Topics in Humor Research, 10] 2022. xii, 306 pp.

Articles

Dijkstra, Roald 2022 Converting comedians: Humour and laughter as a way to interpret the early Christian mime reports Humour in the Beginning: Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism, Dijkstra, Roald and Paul van der Velde (eds.), pp. 107–126 | Chapter

The early Christian aversion for the comic and for theatre has been much discussed. The ongoing large popularity of the theatre, predominantly comical in nature, long after the establishment of Christianity as the leading religion of the Roman empire, tells a different story. Theatre and… read more

Dijkstra, Roald 2022 Humour in religion: A Protean phenomenon Humour in the Beginning: Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism, Dijkstra, Roald and Paul van der Velde (eds.), pp. 273–300 | Chapter