Holy laughter is a term used within charismatic Christianity that describes a religious behaviour in which individuals spontaneously laugh during church meetings. It has occurred in many revivals throughout church history, but it became normative in the early 1990s in Neo-charismatic churches and the Third Wave of the Holy Spirit. Many people claimed to experience this phenomenon at a large revival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada known as the Toronto Blessing.
Holylaughter is a term used within charismatic Christianity that describes a religious behaviour in which individuals spontaneously laugh during church...
healing of damaged relationships, and electric waves of the spirit. "Holylaughter", as a result of overwhelming joy, was a hallmark manifestation, and...
apocalyptic prophecies, holylaughter, crying and barking. Some people have made dramatic claims of sighting "gold dust", "angel feathers", "holy clouds", or the...
Gelotology (from the Greek γέλως gelos "laughter") is the study of laughter and its effects on the body, from a psychological and physiological perspective...
Another spontaneous manifestation found in some Pentecostal churches is holylaughter, in which worshippers uncontrollably laugh. In some Pentecostal churches...
and the presence of the Holy Spirit. The most common described behaviours include laughter (often referred to as "holylaughter"), weeping, deep bowing...
Holy Ghost People by Peter Adair documented an Appalachian Pentecostal church service in which several people were slain in the Spirit. Holylaughter...
The dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire occurred de facto on 6 August 1806, when the last Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine...
civilization. The film chronicles unusual laughter phenomenon such as HolyLaughter, Laughter Parties and the Tanzanian Laughter Epidemic. The film is produced by...
theologically compromised, such as groans, laughter, convulsions and "jerks" (see religious ecstasy, holylaughter and slain in the Spirit). There was also...
experienced religious ecstasy and "bodily agitations". Some worshipers caught holylaughter, barked like dogs, experienced convulsions, fell into trances, danced...
fictional character in the Monty Python film Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The scene in Holy Grail was written by Graham Chapman and John Cleese. The rabbit...
The "laying on of hands" is often the catalyst to expressions like "Holylaughter," speaking in tongues and interpretation, frantic dancing, "running...
followed their television work by making the films Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), and The Meaning of Life (1983). Their...
and makes a fool of herself, soon breaking out into hysterical tears and laughter. Dianne agrees to get help but doesn't want to leave the house for it....
died on March 23, 2013, in East Fallowfield Township, Pennsylvania. HolyLaughter: Essays on Religion in the Comic Perspective (editor, 1969) Once-Born...
distract him. Jackie Chun begins hooting wildly, and Yamcha recognizes this laughter as Master Roshi's. He realizes that Jackie Chun is Roshi. Nam closes his...
dancing mania that occurred in Strasbourg, Alsace (modern-day France), in the Holy Roman Empire from July 1518 to September 1518. Somewhere between 50 and 400...
considered a father of snakes. It was believed in ancient Egypt that Geb's laughter created earthquakes and that he allowed crops to grow. The name was pronounced...
pat on the head or back, and they were sent away. There was gossip and laughter for he loved to joke. Orders for running the ashram were given, usually...
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