Violence and the Sacred

Author: René Girard
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0826477186
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 361

Book Description
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>

Violence and the Sacred

Author: René Girard
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780485113419
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364

Book Description
"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.

Violence and the Sacred

Author: René Girard
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801822186
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
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.

Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East

Author: Ian Hodder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108476023
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275

Book Description
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.

Violence and the Sacred

Author: René Girard
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801822181
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 344

The Ambivalence of the Sacred

Author: R. Scott Appleby
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780847685554
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
This text explains what religious terrorists and religious peacemakers share in common and what causes them to take different paths in fighting injustice.

Sacred Violence

Author: Robert Hamerton-Kelly
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description

Sacred Fury

Author: Charles Selengut
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442276851
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
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.

Violence, Transformation, and The Sacred: "They shall be called Children of God"

Author: Margaret Pfeil and Tobias L. Winright
Publisher: Orbis Books
ISBN: 1608331318
Category : Violence
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description

Sacred Violence

Author: Brent D. Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521196051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 931

Book Description
Employs the sectarian battles which divided African Christians in late antiquity to explore the nature of violence in religious conflicts.