Title: Comedy, tragedy, and religion
First published: 1999
Description: "Comedy, tragedy, and religion have been intertwined since ancient Greece, where comedy and tragedy arose as religious rituals. This 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Comic, The, Miscellanea, Religions, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of The comic, Religious aspects of The tragic, The Comic, The Tragic, Tragic, The, Religion in literature, Comedy, Tragedy, Religion, Miscellanées, Tragique, Aspect religieux, Comique, Comparative Religion, Reference, Miscellanees
LC classification: BL85 .M72 1999