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'"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine" humour, religion and wellbeing'
Tue 4 February 2014
St Edmund's College
This talk will explores the relationship between humour, religion, and wellbeing. It will survey some historical and contemporary psychological approaches to humour, and examines the empirical findings on the relationship between humour and health. It will argue that humour has the capacity both to conserve and subvert received wisdom of faith traditions, and this accounts for the traditionally ambivalent attitude of institutional religion to humour. Finally, it argues that aspects of both humour and religion are associated with transcendence, and that this concept may be a helpful a conceptual bridge linking the two.
Cost: free