Books and Religious Devotion Jeffry L. White making the book easy to

making the book easy to read sequentially or for reference as needed

Written by an eminent academic

Hawaii’s North Shore

even as he wrestles with his own inner turmoil

In developing a critique of humour the author proposes a social theory that places humour - in the form of ridicule - as central to social life

Books and Religious Devotion Jeffry L. White making the book easy toExamines the book collection of Thomas Connary, a nineteenth century Irish Catholic New England farmer, to reconstruct how Connary read and annotated his books. Reveals how books can structure a life of devotion and social participation, and presents an authentic, holistic view of one reader's interior life.