Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion and culture, especially one based on violence. The special value of this volume is the conversations as such -- the real record of working scholars engaged with one another's theories, as they make and meet challenges, and move and maneuver.
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René Girard is a member of the French Academy, Emeritus Professor at Stanford University, and the author of several books that have been translated widely. He is the recipient of the Modern Language Association's Lifetime Achievement Award (2008).
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In current usage, the word scapegoat has three frequently confused meanings that should be carefully distinguished: a biblical meaning, an anthropological meaning, and a psychosocial meaning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unanimous victimage, scapegoat genesis, collective victimage, mythic mentality, scapegoat motif, collective murder, mimetic desire, bear festival, hunting hypothesis, sacrificial crisis, mimetic rivalry, primal murder, lynching scene, scapegoat mechanism, scapegoating process, originary event, surrogate victim, dark event, homo necans, ritual scene, ritual killing, scapegoat rituals, intraspecific aggression, visiting stranger Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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In current usage, the word scapegoat has three frequently confused meanings that should be carefully distinguished: a biblical meaning, an anthropological meaning, and a psychosocial meaning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
unanimous victimage, scapegoat genesis, collective victimage, mythic mentality, scapegoat motif, collective murder, mimetic desire, bear festival, hunting hypothesis, sacrificial crisis, mimetic rivalry, primal murder, lynching scene, scapegoat mechanism, scapegoating process, originary event, surrogate victim, dark event, homo necans, ritual scene, ritual killing, scapegoat rituals, intraspecific aggression, visiting stranger Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Year, Jonathan Smith, New Testament, Upper Paleolithic, Black Death, Konrad Lorenz, Middle Ages, Walter Burkett, Anthropological Commentary, The Bare Facts of Ritual New!
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- Violence and the Sacred by René Girard on 11 pages
- Totem and Taboo (Great Minds Series) by Sigmund Freud on 8 pages
- Pearl of Great Price by Joseph Smith on 5 pages
- On Aggression (Harvest Book, Hb 291) by Konrad Lorenz on 4 pages
- History of Religions: Essays in Methodology by Mircea Eliade in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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