Ratzinger Is Right
No sooner had John Paul II stepped across the threshold of Heaven than Cardinal Ratzinger, now elected Pope Benedict, declared the new mission of the Catholic Church would be to fight "the dictatorship of relativism." To explore this theme, NPQ spoke with René Girard, the famous anthropolo...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2005
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New perspectives quarterly
Year: 2005, Volume: 22, Issue: 3, Pages: 42-48 |
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Girard, René (1923-2015)
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| Summary: | No sooner had John Paul II stepped across the threshold of Heaven than Cardinal Ratzinger, now elected Pope Benedict, declared the new mission of the Catholic Church would be to fight "the dictatorship of relativism." To explore this theme, NPQ spoke with René Girard, the famous anthropologist and author of the seminal study Violence and the Sacred. We then asked Pankaj Mishra, one of the most exciting new non-fiction writers and author of An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World, to respond. |
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| ISSN: | 1540-5842 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: New perspectives quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5842.2005.746_1.x |