The feast of fools : a theological essay on festivity and fantasy / by Harvey Cox.
The author defines festivity as the capacity for genuine revelry and joyous celebration and fantasy as the faculty for envisioning radically alternative life situations. He proposes that a revival of both feast and fantasy will rejuvenate modern spirtuality by imitating the medieval Feast of Fools,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Harvard University Press,
1969.
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| Summary: | The author defines festivity as the capacity for genuine revelry and joyous celebration and fantasy as the faculty for envisioning radically alternative life situations. He proposes that a revival of both feast and fantasy will rejuvenate modern spirtuality by imitating the medieval Feast of Fools, where spirtual life was celebrated while political church traditions were socially mocked and evaluated. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 204 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages [179]-197) |
| ISBN: | 0674295250 (hbk) 9780674295254 (hbk) |