Comedy, Tragedy, and ReligionExplains the worldviews of comedy & tragedy, & analyzes world religions, finding some to be more comic, other more tragic. |
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anti-comic anti-tragic features authoritarian religions basic beliefs Book of Job book of Jonah Buddha Buddhism celebrate century chapter characters Chinese religions Christian comic and tragic Comic Perspective comic protagonists comic spirit comic vision Confucianism Conrad Hyers contrast death divine Eastern religions emotional disengagement emphasis Essays on Religion evil example Exum Faith feel gions God's happy ending Harvey Cox heaven Hebrew Bible hell Hinduism Hinduism and Buddhism Holy Laughter idea incongruity Isaac Islam Israel Jesus Jews Job's John Morreall Jonah Judaism laugh lives look Luke Matt mental flexibility militarism monotheism monotheistic religions moral Nature Neopagans nonattachment playfulness pro-comic features problem punishment question Reinhold Niebuhr religious rituals role models Seabury Press sense of humor seriousness social story suffering Tao Te Ching Taoism teachings Testament things thinking tion tradition tragedy and comedy tragic and comic tragic heroes tragic vision trans University Press versus virtues Walter Kerr Whedbee York