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Paperback Comedy, Tragedy and Religion Book

ISBN: 0791442063

ISBN13: 9780791442067

Comedy, Tragedy and Religion

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Explicates the worldviews of comedy and tragedy, and analyzes world religions, finding some to be more comic, others more tragic.

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Useful even in a sociology of religion course

As a graduate student teacher, I use this book because it offers a non-threatening method of showing how different groups in a society can come up with alternative worldviews even if they share the same sacred texts and experiences. Specifically, I love how the author shows that cultural values are more influenced by how a group recounts a story in a comic or tragic manner rather than what the details of a story are. Just because the story may involve a nuclear war or a holocaust or the crucifixion of a leader does not mean that the story must espouse tragic/negative views of human nature.
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