Can we survive our origins? : readings in René Girard's theory of violence and the sacred /

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Are religions intrinsically violent (as is strenuously argued by the 'new atheists')? Or, as Girard argues, have they been functionally rational instruments developed to manage and cope with the intrinsically violent runaway dynamic that characterizes human social organization in all perio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Antonello, Pierpaolo (Editor ), Gifford, Paul (Editor ), Williams, Rowan, 1950- (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, 2015.
Colección:Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.
Temas:
Girard, René, > 1923-2015.
Girard, René, > 1923-2015
Violence > Religious aspects.
Sacred books > History and criticism.
Religions > Relations.
Violence > Aspect religieux.
Livres sacrés > Histoire et critique.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Interfaith relations
Religions
Sacred books
Violence > Religious aspects
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Rowan Williams
  • A Covenant among Beasts: Human and Chimpanzee Violence in Evolutionary Perspective / Paul Dumouchel
  • Liminal Crises: The Origins of Cultural Order, the Default Mechanisms of Survival, and the Pedagogy of the Sacrificial Victim / Pierpaolo Antonello
  • Victims, Sacred Violence, and Reconciliation: a Darwinian-Girardian Reading of Human Peril and Human Possibility / Harald Wydra
  • Empire of Sacrifice: Violence and the Sacred in American Culture / Jon Pahl and James Wellman
  • From Closed Societies to the Open Society: Parochial Altruism and Christian Universalism / Wolfgang Palaver
  • Girard, the Gospels, and the Symmetrical Inversion of the Founding Murder / Paul Gifford
  • Survival and Salvation: A Girardian Reading of Christian Hope in Evolutionary Perspective / Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly
  • Northern Ireland: Breaking the Inheritance of Conflict and Violence / Duncan Morrow
  • Communities of Contrast: Modeling Reconciliation in Northern Ireland / Derick Wilson
  • Girardian Reflections on Israel and Palestine / Mel Konner
  • South Africa: Positive Mimesis and the Turn toward Peace / Leon Marincowitz
  • Peace-Making in Practice and Theory: An Ancounter with René Girard / Scott Atran
  • Nuclear Apocalypse: The Balance of Terror and Girardian "Misrecognition" / Jean-Pierre Dupuy
  • The "Intermediary" Case / Margo Boenig-Liptsin
  • Misrecognition of "Misrecognition" / Paul Dumouchel
  • Survival without Salvation? / Paul Gifford
  • Girard, Climate Change, and Apocalypse / Michael Northcott
  • A New Heaven and a New Earth: Apocalypticism and Its Alternatives / Michael Kirwan.

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