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Comedy, Tragedy, and Religion

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

CHOICE 2000 Outstanding Academic Title

Comedy, tragedy, and religion have been intertwined since ancient Greece, where comedy and tragedy arose as religious rituals. This groundbreaking book analyzes the worldviews of tragedy and comedy, and compares each with the world's major religions. Morreall contrasts the tragic and comic along twenty psychological and social...

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ReligionHumorGeneral & Miscellaneous ReligionReligion - General & MiscellaneousHumor - History & Criticism