Introduction

an overview of Schutz's work and this work

1-20

Pragmatic everyday life

23-48

Communication as paramount

Schutz's developing understanding of multiple realities

49-62

Multiple realities and other interruptions of pragmatic everyday life

a dialectic

63-76

The finite province of religious meaning

preliminary remarks, tension of consciousness, and epoché

79-105

The finite province of religious meaning

form of spontaneity, experience of self, sociality, and time-perspective

107-144

Making interracial humor together

147-171

The finite province of humorous meaning

preliminary clarifications, tension of consciousness, epoché, and form of spontaneity

173-196

Humor

the self, sociality, temporality

197-214

Interplay among the provinces

religion, humor, and literature

217-224