Mimetic theory and world religions / edited by Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk.
Contributor(s): Palaver, Wolfgang [editor.]
| Schenk, Richard [editor.]
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TextSeries: Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture: Publisher: East Lansing, Michigan : Michigan State University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xxii, 456 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781611862621; 1611862620Subject(s): Girard, René, 1923-2015 | Memetics | Religion | Religious pluralism | ReligionsLOC classification: B2430.G494 | M46 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part 1. Mimetic theory and religion. Neither Dawkins nor Durkheim : on René Girard's theory of religion / by Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Sacrifice in Hegel and Girard / by Anselm Tilman Ramelow -- Reason and revelation : an important distinction? / by John Ranieri -- The messianic moment : Bergson and Girard / by Benoît Chantre -- Girard and religion in the age of secularism / by Otto Kallscheuer -- Why Rousseau cannot laugh : structuring Motif--"Achever" / by Jeremiah Alberg -- Girard and the feminist critique of religion : intimate mediation in Kristeva and Girard / by Martha Reineke -- Part 2. Mimetic theory, Christianity, and interfaith (interreligious) dialogue. Girard and world religions : the state of the question / by Robert J. Daly -- René Girard and world religions / by Michael Kirwan -- The ambivalence of interreligious historiography : foreign and domestic narratives / by Richard Schenk -- Sacrifice as a contested concept between R. Schwager and R. Girard and its significance for interreligious dialogue / by Nikolaus Wandinger -- The Abrahamic revolution / by Wolfgang Palaver -- The "Hellenic" rationality of interreligious dialogue : René Girard, Simone Weil, and Pope Benedict XVI / by Ann Astell -- Part 3. Rivalry, sacrifice, and world religions. Burning desires, burning corpses : Girardian reflections on fire in Hinduism and Buddhism / by Brian Collins -- Girard and Hindu sacrifice / by Noel Sheth -- The roots of violence : society and the individual in Buddhism and Girard / by Jacob Dalton and Alexander von Rospatt -- Religious sacrifice, social scapegoating, and self-justification / by Ted Peters -- Judaism and the exodus from archaic religion : reading René Girard among the world religions / by Sandor Goodhart -- Tawhid : the oneness of God and the desire for the good / by Adam Ericksen -- Islam : law and violence (and nonviolence) / by Rüdiger Lohlker -- Girard and the analogy of desire / by James Alison.