Violence And The Sacred In The Modern World
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Author | : René Girard |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2005-04-13 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0826477186 |
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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>
Author | : Mark Juergensmeyer |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2020-09-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780367030896 |
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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.
Author | : Gordon Lynch |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2012-02-16 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199557012 |
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Re-interpreting Durkheim's theory of the sacred, this book sets out a theory of the sacred for use across a range of humanities and social science disciplines and draws on contemporary case study material to show how sacred forms - whether in 'religious' or 'secular' guise - continue to shape social life in the modern world.
Author | : René Girard |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1988-01-01 |
Genre | : Rites and ceremonies |
ISBN | : 9780485113419 |
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"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.
Author | : Brent D. Shaw |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 931 |
Release | : 2011-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521196051 |
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Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.
Author | : Kathryn McClymond |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2008-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801887763 |
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Argues that the modern Western world's reductive understanding of sacrifice simplifies an enormously broad and dynamic cluster of religious activities, drawing on a comparative study of Vedic and Jewish sacrificial practices to demonstrate not only that sacrifice has no single, essential, identifying characteristic, but also that the elements most frequently attributed to such acts--death and violence--are not universal.
Author | : Ian Hodder |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2019-03-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108476023 |
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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.
Author | : Muhammad Shafiq |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2021-01-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3030511251 |
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This book provides a multidisciplinary commentary on a wide range of religious traditions and their relationship to acts of violence. Hate and violence occur at every level of human interaction, as do peace and compassion. Scholars of religion have a particular obligation to make sense out of this situation, tracing its history and variables, and drawing lessons for the future. From the formative periods of the religious traditions to their application in the contemporary world, the essays in this volume interrogate the views on violence found within the traditions and provide examples of religious practices that exacerbate or ameliorate situations of conflict.
Author | : Jill N. Claster |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1442600608 |
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In Sacred Violence, Jill N. Claster brings new insight and focus to the history of the crusades. The book includes an 8-page color insert of illustrations, 12 maps, over 25 black-and-white illustrations, a chronology of the crusades, and a list of rulers.
Author | : Duane Armitage |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Memetics |
ISBN | : 9781611863871 |
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"This book critiques the postmodernism and Continental philosophy of Heidegger and Nietzche through the lens of the mimetic theory of Rene Girard"--