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Towards Reconciliation: Understanding Violence and the Sacred After Rene Girard

[Paperback]

by Paul Gifford

    • Author

      Paul Gifford

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      James Clarke Company

    • Published

      September 2020

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      Towards Reconciliation: Understanding Violence and the Sacred After Rene Girard

      Today's Price £28.10

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      Product Description

      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.

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      • Author

        Paul Gifford

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        James Clarke Company

      • Published

        September 2020

      • Weight

        262g

      • Dimensions

        15.6 x 23.1 x 2.3 cm

      • ISBN

        9780227177075

      • ISBN-10

        022717707X

      • Eden Code

        5291554

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      • Author/Creator: Paul Gifford

      • ISBN: 9780227177075

      • Publisher: James Clarke Company

      • Release Date: September 2020

      • Weight: 262g

      • Dimensions: 15.6 x 23.1 x 2.3 cm

      • Eden Code: 5291554

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