Art, Enchantment, and Modern Culture

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A book about why saints laugh, how comedians teach us to suffer, and what hilarity has to do with grace.

“....brilliantly original.... A really engaging, accessible, fresh and challenging study.”

Rowan Williams, 104th Archbishop of Canterbury

“Crawford’s deft storytelling exposes the suffering, the hope, and the religious longings that animate modern comedy.... both moving and deeply insightful....”

Natalie Carnes, author of Image and Presence and Motherhood: A Confession

“....Irreverent, scholarly, and unexpectedly moving, this is a reminder that laughter can be a form of revelation, and that comedy speaks to the heart of what it means to be human.”

Andrew McConnell Stott, author of The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi: Laughter, Madness and the Story of Britain’s Greatest Comedian