Auteur: Gifford Paul Gifford

<DIV>Are religions intrinsically violent (as is strenuously argued by the ‘new atheists’)? Or, as Girard argues, have they been functionally rational instruments developed to manage …

<DIV>From his groundbreaking <I>Violence and the Sacred </I>and <I>Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World</I>, René Girard’s mimetic theory is …