Towards Reconciliation: Understanding Violence and the Sacred After Rene Girard

by Paul Gifford

Book Overview

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 and the sacred, showing why it is everybody's problem and the Problem of Everybody. Rene Girard's mimetic theory, especially his neglected writings on biblical texts, can...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022717707X
• ISBN13: 9780227177075
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: James Clarke Company
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"