Christian comedy

There is a style of comedy directed at people who grew up inside a religion, and relies on “shared experience” and a common base of assumptions for its drive. It’s not jjust “cleaned up” comedy. Sometime it can get pretty racy.

Catholicism has a lot of this (although maybe I’m just more aware of it, having been brought up catholic):

John R. Powers books – Do Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
. The Last Catholic in America
. the Unoriginal Sinner and the Ice cream God
. There’s apparently a musical based on his works out there

The “Growing Up Catholic” series by Mary Jane-Frances Cavolinas et al – Growing Up Catholic
. More Growing up Catholic
. Still Catholic After All These Years

Ed Stivender – Raised Catholic – Can you Tell?
. Still Catholic – After all these Fears

There’s also a play – Late Night Catechism (not to mention the various incarnhations of Nunsense)

I also have a couple of books of Catholic cartoons about Speck the Altar Boy, which doesn’t really fit the style of the above.

I’ve seen books about people raised in other religions, too. When I was in Utah the books of Pat Bagley cartoons and Orson Scott Card’s Saintspeak Dictionary were as much help in understanding the SLC culture (and the way Mormonism is really practiced) than any number of learned texts. There’s also a “Growing up Catholic’” style humor book about being raised Protestant that covers things for those folks. I think that what would really help international understanding would be if someone did a similar book on growing up Muslim.