Besides rituals and practices, shared narrations are an elementary aspect for the cohesion of communities and societies. How communities and societies refer to these narrations can often be described as ambivalent in regard to excluding tendencies as well as to a felt unambiguousness of the narrations they share. Referring to narrations and narratives can be problematic because of another reason: It seems to be a common sense in narrative ethics that recipients learn a lot by reading literature on how to lead a life that is acceptable by social conventions and own moral standards. Among others, great literature is fraught with multiperspectivity as a way of representing reality that is full of ambivalences. Moreover, it seems to be an inappropriate way of taking narratives into account when it comes to challenging questions of distinguishing between good and evil, right or wrong, because then these narratives are reduced to a (wished) clarity everyday life is lacking of. Therefore, this paper focuses on the impact of the multiperspectivity in narratives, their polyvalent meanings and their presentation of ambivalence as a chance for communities to deepen their competences in dealing with ambivalences. For this, it is necessary to understand how individuals and communities refer to narratives and which roles narratives play in shaping the cohesion of communities. The paper aims to compare these two aspects for Christian and non-Christian narratives, that have had a great impact on shaping communities, and focus on their way of dealing with ambivalence, multiperspectivity and polyvalence within the narratives. Within societal transforming processes it is inevitable to face the question, whether religious narratives and their existential framing have the potential to lead communities to develop more tolerance for ambivalence and to integrate ambivalence and diversity into their self-conception, or if they hinder it.