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Comedy, tragedy, and religion have been intertwined since ancient Greece, where comedy and tragedy arose as religious rituals.

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 dimensions and uses these to analyze both Eastern and Western traditions. Although no religion embodies a purely tragic or comic vision of life, some are mostly tragic and others mostly comic.

Comedy; Tragedy; & Religion book. Morreall contrasts the tragic and comic along twenty psychological and social dimensions and uses these to analyze both East 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.

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Meat John Morrell and know that lunchtime is the best part of the day, no questions asked! John Morrell. In Eastern religions, Morreall finds no robust tragic vision but does find significant comic features, especially in Taoism and Zen Buddhism. In the Western monotheistic tradition, there are some comic features in the early Bible, but by the late Hebrew Bible, the tragic vision dominates. Two millennia have done little to reverse that tragic vision in Judaism.

Ships from and sold by Firehouse Liquidation. The author opens his study by examining what he sees as the connections between tragedy, comedy and religion. He argues that all three focus on the incongruities of life and the "disparity between the way things are and the way things should b. Thus, he notes, irony is a prominent feature in the attitudes of comedy, tragedy and religion toward the world.

Comedy, Tragedy, and Religion book. Details (if other): Cancel. Although no religion embodies a purely tragic or comic vision of life, some are mostly tragic and others mostly comic