Girard's mimetic theory across the disciplines
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Girard's mimetic theory across the disciplines
（Violence, desire, and the sacred, v. 1）
Bloomsbury, 2014
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Includes index
"First published in 2012 by the Continuum International Publishing Group Inc. Paperback edition first published 2014 by Bloomsbury Academic"--T.p. verso
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Violence, Desire and the Sacred presents the most up-to-date inter-disciplinary work being developed with the ground-breaking insights of Rene 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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Ann Astell
Contributors
Introduction
Scott Cowdell, Joel Hodge and Chris Fleming
Part I: Finding Our Bearings
1. Rene Girard, Modernity, and Apocalypse
Scott Cowdell
Part II: Biblical Studies
2. "Like Being Dragged Through a Bush Backwards": Hints of the Shape of Conversion's Adventure
James Alison
3. Finding the Way: How to Study Scripture with the Help of Scripture and the Desert Fathers
Drasko Dizdar
4. Sacred Men and Sacred Goats: Mimetic Theory in Levitical and Passion Intertext
Debra Anstis
Part III: Theology
5. Beyond Locked Doors: The Breath of the Risen One
Anthony J. Kelly, CSsR
6. Torture and Faith: The Violent Sacred and Christian Resistance in East Timor
Joel Hodge
7. Girard and the Tasks of Theology
Kevin Lenehan
Part IV: Literary Studies
8. Rene Girard, Jacques Derrida's The Gift of Death, and Salman Rushdie
Vijay Mishra
9. Grace Can Be Violent: Flannery's O'Connor's Novelistic Truth
Jeremiah Alberg
Part V: History and Political Thought
10. Europe and Enmity: How Christianity Can Contribute to a Positive Identity
Wolfgang Palaver
11. Herodian Aspects of the English Reformation Monarchy: Girardian Insights into Unacknowledged Brutality
Ivan Head
12. Human Rights: Controlling the Uncontrollable?
Peter Stork
Part VI: Developments and Critiques
13. Hard Evidence for Girardian Mimetic Theory? Intersubjectivity and Mirror Neurons
Scott Cowdell
14. Nietzsche, the Last Atheist
Chris Fleming and John O'Carroll
15. Is All Desire Mimetic? Lonergan and Girard on the Nature of Desire and Authenticity
Neil Ormerod
Glossary of Key Girardian Terms
Some Further Reading
Index
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