Abstract

This chapter focuses on a relatively small body of literature that emerged in the late 1960s, which the author calls “play theology.” Play theology emerged in tandem with death of God theology and shares many of its assumptions. But it sought to address a changed socio-cultural milieu by turning to what is often assumed to be the lighter aspects of religion, as a way to reinvigorate and transform the latter after God’s death. This chapter focuses on Harvey Cox’s The Feast of Fools and David L. Miller’s Gods and Games as exemplary.