Why do humans sacralise the causes for which they fight? Who will decipher for us the enigma of ‘sacred violence’? Paul Gifford shows that the culture theorist and fundamental anthropologist Rene Girard has in fact decoded the obscurely ‘foundational’ complicity between violence and the sacred, showing why it is everybody’s problem and the Problem of Everybody. Rene Girard’s mimetic theory, especially his neglected writings on biblical texts, can be read as an anthropological argument continuous with Darwin, shedding formidable new light to a vast array of dark and knotted things: from the functioning of the world’s oldest temple to today’s terrorist violence, from the Cross of Christ to the Good Friday Agreement, such insights illuminate superbly (‘from below’) the ways of creation, revelation, redemption – which is to say, ultimately, the Christian enterprise and vocation of Reconciliation. Here is a novel and exciting resource for scanning the hidden ‘sacrificial’ logic that still secretly shapes cultural, social, and political life today. Girard puts us ahead of the game in the key dialogues required if we are to avoid autogenerated apocalypses of human violence in the world of tomorrow.
Paul Gifford
Towards Reconciliation [EPUB ebook]
Understanding Violence and the sacred after Rene Girard
Towards Reconciliation [EPUB ebook]
Understanding Violence and the sacred after Rene Girard
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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 164 ● ISBN 9780227907108 ● Editura The Lutterworth Press ● Publicat 2020 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 7442886 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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