Towards reconciliation : understanding violence and the sacred after René Girard. /

Why do humans sacralise the causes for which they fight? Who will decipher for us the enigma of 'sacred violence'? Paul Gifford shows that the culture theorist and fundamental anthropologist Rene Girard has in fact decoded the obscurely 'foundational' complicity between violence...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gifford, Paul (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : James Clarke & Co, 2020.
Temas:
Girard, René, > 1923-2015.
Girard, René, > 1923-2015
Violence > Religious aspects.
Reconciliation > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Rites and ceremonies.
Sacrifice.
Rites et cérémonies.
Violence > Aspect religieux.
ceremonies.
rites.
Violence > Religious aspects
Reconciliation > Religious aspects > Christianity
Rites and ceremonies
Sacrifice
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Book Title
  • Copyright
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 What Is 'Sacred Violence'?
  • 2 Violent Origins, Origins of Violence
  • 3 Girardian 'Founding Murder'
  • 4 Violence, the Archaic Sacredand Judaeo-Christian Revelation
  • 5 Passion, Resurrection -and How We Come by Reconciliation
  • 6 Taking Thought for Reconciliation
  • Appendix 'From Animal to Human', 'On Religion'
  • Cited Texts and Further Reading
  • Back cover

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