Violence and the Sacred
Title | Violence and the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | René Girard |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 361 |
Release | 2005-04-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0826477186 |
René Girard (1923-) was Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford Unviersity from 1981 until his retirement in 1995. Violence and the Sacred is Girard's brilliant study of human evil. Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred. Translated by Patrick Gregory>
Violence and the Sacred
Title | Violence and the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | René Girard |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 364 |
Release | 1988-01-01 |
Genre | Rites and ceremonies |
ISBN | 9780485113419 |
"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the 'heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, Chronicle of Higher Education.
Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World
Title | Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Juergensmeyer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2019-03-20 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0429670516 |
How is symbolic violence related to the real acts of religious violence around the modern world? The authors of this book, first published in 1992, explore this question with reference to some of the most volatile religious and political conflicts of the day: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Sikhs in India, militant Jewish groups in Israel, and Muslim movements from the Middle East to Indonesia. In addition to providing valuable insights into these important incidents, the authors – social scientists and historians of comparative religion – are responding to the theoretical issues articulated by René Girard in Violence and the Sacred (1977). The present volume is the first book of essays to test Girard’s theories about the social significance of religious symbols of violence against real, rather than symbolic, acts. In some cases his theories are found to be applicable; in other cases, the authors provide alternative theories of their own. In a concluding essay, co-authored by Mark Anspach, Girard provides a response.
Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
Title | Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Hodder |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 275 |
Release | 2019-03-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108476023 |
This book is primarily for researchers and students in the archaeology of the Ancient Near East. The volume results from intense interaction between archaeologists at these sites and a group of theorists studying the scholarship of René Girard.
The Ambivalence of the Sacred
Title | The Ambivalence of the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | R. Scott Appleby |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | 450 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780847685554 |
This text explains what religious terrorists and religious peacemakers share in common and what causes them to take different paths in fighting injustice.
Violence and the Sacred, Epz Edition
Title | Violence and the Sacred, Epz Edition PDF eBook |
Author | Girard |
Publisher | Burns & Oates |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781846840449 |
Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World
Title | Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Juergensmeyer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 160 |
Release | 2020-09-24 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780367030896 |
How is symbolic violence related to the real acts of religious violence around the modern world? The authors of this book, first published in 1992, explore this question with reference to some of the most volatile religious and political conflicts of the day: Hezbollah in Lebanon, Sikhs in India, militant Jewish groups in Israel, and Muslim movements from the Middle East to Indonesia. In addition to providing valuable insights into these important incidents, the authors - social scientists and historians of comparative religion - are responding to the theoretical issues articulated by Ren� Girard in Violence and the Sacred (1977). The present volume is the first book of essays to test Girard's theories about the social significance of religious symbols of violence against real, rather than symbolic, acts. In some cases his theories are found to be applicable; in other cases, the authors provide alternative theories of their own. In a concluding essay, co-authored by Mark Anspach, Girard provides a response.