Subj : katharsis
To   : ALL
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Thu Oct 26 2000 04:00 am

"Aristotle's account of the katharsis of tragedy was a philosophic
presentation of a truth that 
Homo religiosus had always understood intuitively: a symbolic, mythical or
ritual representation 
of events that would be unendurable in daily life can redeem and transform
them into something 
pure and even pleasurable."

Karen Armstrong, _A History of God_, page 37.
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