Religion and Humor as Emancipating Provinces of Meaning

1. Introduction: An Overview of Schutz’s Work and This Work
Michael Barber

Part I. Pragmatic Mastery and Its Nemeses: A Dialectic

2. Pragmatic Everyday Life
Michael Barber

3. Communication as Paramount: Schutz’s Developing Understanding of Multiple Realities
Michael Barber

4. Multiple Realities and Other Interruptions of Pragmatic Everyday Life: A Dialectic
Michael Barber

Part II. The Finite Province of Religious Meaning

5. The Finite Province of Religious Meaning: Preliminary Remarks, Tension of Consciousness, and Epoché

Michael Barber

6. The Finite Province of Religious Meaning: Form of Spontaneity, Experience of Self, Sociality, and Time-Perspective
Michael Barber

Part III. The Finite Province of Meaning of Humor

7. Making Interracial Humor Together
Michael Barber

8. The Finite Province of Humorous Meaning: Preliminary Clarifications, Tension of Consciousness, Epoché, and Form of Spontaneity
Michael Barber

9. Humor: The Self, Sociality, Temporality
Michael Barber

Part IV. Conclusion

10. Interplay among the Provinces: Religion, Humor, and Literature
Michael Barber

Keywords: Philosophy, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of the Social Sciences