Religion and People-Making

oh man so much biblical crap out there, it's a bitch to sort through

on the hinduism end there's this incredible book, which is great for little kids:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81Aj5ZLt5sL.jpg

whoa. that looks holy shit awesome.

he is an ex-Pixar (I think?) guy, he has a couple other hindu-themed book, one about how Ganesha broke his tooth, one that's just a catalog of gods/godesses - but the Ramayana one is the best of the crop

I think yr problem is going to be that most biblical stuff is not created from a cultural-studies kind of perspective, it's created primarily for believers to indoctrinate their children.

11 is old enough to read some of R. Crumb's "Book of Genesis" imo (altho you'd probably want to skip certain chapters and you'd have to be okay with boobs and lots of body hair lol). That's a faithful rendition that's done by a non-believer.

most biblical stuff is not created from a cultural-studies kind of perspective

Yeah, that is very much my problem.

The Crumb thing sounds mostly okay, but not quite there yet for some of the genesis material. Suppose I could ask my local comic shop guys if they had anything in this vein, but I think it would get re-shelved in favor of some Batman.

i think these are excellent for children but probably contain religious content as well - you may have to be prepared to skip paragraphs you're not in love with:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Midrash-Says-Beraishis/dp/B000FT6BSG

there's a few volumes (and i just asked my brother and he says it's not so religious and more just the plain midrashim).

the first volume probably contains most of what you want (bereshis deals w/ adam + eve, noah, abraham, etc), the second one is the exodus narrative, the others are only of interest if you're particularly committed to giving your kid a thorough jewish education and not just a broad religious one.

kids books of Bible stories are probly reasonably innocuous as long as you discuss context first imo

altho if it's factual references maybe an age-appropriate encyclopedia wd be the way to go?

"Books" are definitely off-track though. He's got plenty of books that I'd rather he read that he doesn't get around to. Looking specifically for videos.

ah didn't read you properly, okay non-polemical videos is probly much harder.

I feel like my ideal would be something along the lines of Crash Course, which has this episode on historical Christianity, but doesn't go very deep into the stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG55ErfdaeY&index=7&list=WL

But even fairly straight-forward bible cartoons that are well-written and not TOTALLY BORING. I've gone through so much garbage on youtube. I'm sure it's gonna fuck up my recommendations for like a week.

hmm yeah I got nothin in the video dept sorry

me neither

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1ExRYenS2w

I think there is some value in this godley play stuff but it's supposed to be performed rather than filmed and idk how you would seek it out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkjXX2xjTkg

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