Violence and the Sacred

Violence and the Sacred
Author: René Girard
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2005-04-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0826477186

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

Violence and the Sacred
Author: René Girard
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780485113419

"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

Violence and the Sacred
Author: René Girard
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1979
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801822186

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

Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East
Author: Ian Hodder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108476023

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

Violence and the Sacred
Author: René Girard
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1979
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801822181

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.

Sacred Violence

Sacred Violence
Author: Robert Hamerton-Kelly
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1992
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN:

The Ambivalence of the Sacred

The Ambivalence of the Sacred
Author: R. Scott Appleby
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2000
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780847685554

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

Sacred Fury

Sacred Fury
Author: Charles Selengut
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2017-01-12
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1442276851

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.

Sacred Violence

Sacred Violence
Author: Brent D. Shaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 931
Release: 2011-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521196051

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