Can we survive our origins?: readings in René Girard's theory of violence and the sacred

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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword / Rowan Williams -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. The Programming of Origins: Sacred Violence and Its Legacy -- A Covenant among Beasts: Human and Chimpanzee Violence in Evolutionary Perspective / Paul Dumouchel -- Liminal Crises: The Origins of Cultural...

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Contributors: Gifford, Paul 1944- (Other) ; Antonello, Pierpaolo 1965- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: East Lansing Michigan State University Press 2015
In:Year: 2015
Reviews:[Rezension von: Can we survive our origins? : readings in René Girard's theory of violence and the sacred] (2017) (Liechty, Daniel, 1954 -)
Series/Journal:Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture
Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture Ser
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Violence / Girard, René 1923-2015 / Religion
B Violence
Further subjects:B Sacred books ; History and criticism
B Girard, René ; 1923-
B Religions ; Relations
B Violence-Religious aspects
B Religions-Relations
B Electronic books
B Violence ; Religious aspects
B Girard, René,-1923-2015
B Sacred books-History and criticism
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Summary:Intro -- Contents -- Foreword / Rowan Williams -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One. The Programming of Origins: Sacred Violence and Its Legacy -- A Covenant among Beasts: Human and Chimpanzee Violence in Evolutionary Perspective / Paul Dumouchel -- Liminal Crises: The Origins of Cultural Order, the Default Mechanisms of Survival, and the Pedagogy of the Sacrificial Victim / Pierpaolo Antonello -- Victims, Sacred Violence, and Reconciliation: A Darwinian-Girardian Reading of Human Peril and Human Possibility / Harald Wydra -- Empire of Sacrifice: Violence and the Sacred in American Culture / Jon Pahl and James Wellman -- Part Two. Rebooting Evolutionary Survival: Is Christianity Crucial? -- From Closed Societies to the Open Society: Parochial Altruism and Christian Universalism / Wolfgang Palaver -- Girard, the Gospels, and the Symmetrical Inversion of the Founding Murder / Paul Gifford -- Survival and Salvation: A Girardian Reading of Christian Hope in Evolutionary Perspective / Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly -- Part Three. Violent Reciprocities and Peace-Making in the Contemporary World -- Northern Ireland: Breaking the Inheritance of Conflict and Violence / Duncan Morrow -- Communities of Contrast: Modeling Reconciliation in Northern Ireland / Derick Wilson -- Responses to Morrow and Wilson -- Girardian Reflections on Israel and Palestine / Mel Konner -- South Africa: Positive Mimesis and the Turn toward Peace / Leon Marincowitz -- Peace-Making in Practice and Theory: An Encounter with René Girard / Scott Atran -- Part Four. Between Progress and Abyss: Our Modernity -- Nuclear Apocalypse: The Balance of Terror and Girardian "Misrecognition" / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Responses to Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- The "Intermediary" Case / Margo Boenig-Liptsin -- Misrecognition of "Misrecognition" / Paul Dumouchel.
Item Description:Description based upon print version of record
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (388 p)
ISBN:978-1-61186-149-5

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