A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: Rene Girard in Dialogue

by James Bernard Murphy

Why are religious rituals, symbols, and rhetoric so full of images of blood, sacrifice, and death? Why does religious fervor so often lead to Holy War, Crusade, and Jihad? No wonder many people assume that religion tends to give rise to violence. But what if it were the other way around? What if violence actually gave rise to religion? So argued the French literary theorist and anthropologist Rene Girard (1923-2015). Described as the Darwin of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845199286
• ISBN13: 9781845199289
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"