Violence And The Sacred

Author : René Girard
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826477186
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and the Sacred written by René Girard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-04-13 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : René Girard
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780485113419
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and the Sacred written by René Girard and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : René Girard
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801822186
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and the Sacred written by René Girard and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429670516
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and the Sacred in the Modern World written by Mark Juergensmeyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 René 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 : Ian Hodder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108476023
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East written by Ian Hodder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : R. Scott Appleby
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780847685554
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ambivalence of the Sacred written by R. Scott Appleby and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explains what religious terrorists and religious peacemakers share in common and what causes them to take different paths in fighting injustice.

Author : Charles Selengut
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442276851
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Fury written by Charles Selengut and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ISIS attacks to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, Sacred Fury explores the connections between faith and violence in world religions. Author Charles Selengut looks at religion as both a force for peace and for violence, and he asks key questions such as how “religious” is this violence and what drives the faithful to attack in the names of their beliefs? Revised throughout, the third edition features new material on violence in Buddhism and Hinduism, the rise of ISIS, “lone wolf terrorists,” and more. This up-to-date edition draws on a variety of disciplines to comprehend forms of religious violence both historically and in the present day. The third edition of Sacred Fury is an essential resource for understanding the connections between faith and violence.

Author : Brent D. Shaw
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521196051
Total Pages : 931 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sacred Violence written by Brent D. Shaw and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.

Author : Muhammad Shafiq
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030511251
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The (De)Legitimization of Violence in Sacred and Human Contexts written by Muhammad Shafiq and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Scott Cowdell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN 13 : 9781628925685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 1 written by Scott Cowdell and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2014-02-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violence, Desire and the Sacred presents the most up-to-date inter-disciplinary work being developed with the ground-breaking insights of René Girard's mimetic theory. The collection showcases the work of outstanding scholars in mimetic theory and how they are applying and developing Girard's insights in a variety of fields. Girard's mimetic insight has provided a fruitful way for different disciplines, such as literature, anthropology, theology, religion studies, cultural studies, and philosophy, to engage on common anthropological ground, with a shared understanding of the human person. The aim of this edited collection is to present this interdisciplinary work and to illustrate how Girard's insights provide fertile ground for bringing together disparate disciplines in a shared purpose. As academic work on Girard's insights is growing, this collection would meet the need to show the critical, interdisciplinary applications of these insights.