Rene Girard and creative reconciliation /

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The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides effective practice and practice is the ground for compelling theory. Using a Girardian hermeneutic as a starting point, a new conceptual Gestalt emerges in these essays...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Ryba, Thomas, 1953- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, 2014.
Subjects:
Girard, René, > 1923-2015.
Reconciliation.
Reconciliation > Religious aspects.
Réconciliation.
Réconciliation > Aspect religieux.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Title Page
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • FORGIVENESS, RESPONSIBILITY, AND BLESSING
  • Mimetic Desire, Aphetic Mimesis, and Reconciliation as the Nexus of "Letting Go" and "Turning Around"
  • The Self and Other People
  • Dialogue
  • Blessing-Based Reconciliation in the Face of Violence
  • THEOLOGY OF FRIENDSHIP, PEACE, AND NON-VIOLENCE
  • Towards a Theology of Friendship in the "Global Village"
  • Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities
  • The Creative Non-Violent Approach of Walter Wink
  • Improvising the Practice of Nonresistance as Creative Mimesis
  • RETHINKING GIRARDIAN CONCEPTS
  • René Girard and the Symbolism of Religious Sacrifice
  • Psychology, Hermeneutic Philosophy, and Girardian Thought
  • Rethinking Girardian Reconciliation
  • RECONCILIATION IN CONTEXT
  • Seeding Reconciliation in a Theater of War
  • Changing Trajectory
  • There Is a Crack in Everything. ...
  • Reconciliation as Resistance
  • Mimesis, Residential Schools, and Reconciliation
  • Bosnia's Children Born of War
  • "We Forgive and Ask Forgiveness"
  • From Fracturing Resemblances to Restorative Differences
  • Conclusion
  • Index
  • About the Contributors.

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