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Can we survive our origins?, readings in René Girard's theory of violence and the sacred, edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Paul Gifford

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Can we survive our origins?, readings in René Girard's theory of violence and the sacred, edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Paul Gifford

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Can we survive our origins?

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

895728617

Responsibility statement

edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Paul Gifford

Series statement

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture

Sub title

readings in René Girard's theory of violence and the sacred

Table Of Contents

Foreword / Rowan Williams -- A Covenant among Beasts; Human and Chimpanzee Violence in Evolutionary Perspective / Paul Dumouchel -- Liminal Crises: The Origins of Cultural Order, the Default Mechanisms of Survival, and the Pedagogy of the Sacrificial Victim / Pierpaolo Antonello -- Victims, Sacred Violence, and Reconciliation: a Darwinian-Girardian Reading of Human Peril and Human Possibility / Harald Wydra -- Empire of Sacrifice: Violence and the Sacred in American Culture / Jon Pahl and James Wellman -- From Closed Societies to the Open Society: Parochial Altruism and Christian Universalism / Wolfgang Palaver -- Girard, the Gospels, and the Symmetrical Inversion of the Founding Murder / Paul Gifford -- Survival and Salvation: A Girardian Reading of Christian Hope in Evolutionary Perspective / Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly -- Northern Ireland: Breaking the Inheritance of Conflict and Violence / Duncan Morrow -- Communities of Contrast: Modeling Reconciliation in Northern Ireland / Derick Wilson -- Girardian Reflections on Israel and Palestine / Mel Konner -- South Africa: Positive Mimesis and the Turn toward Peace / Leon Marincowitz -- Peace-Making in Practice and Theory: An Ancounter with René Girard / Scott Atran -- Nuclear Apocalypse: The Balance of Terror and Girardian "Misrecognition" / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- The "Intermediary" Case / Margo Boenig-Liptsin -- Misrecognition of "Misrecognition" / Paul Dumouchel -- Survival without Salvation? / Paul Gifford -- Girard, Climate Change, and Apocalypse / Michael Northcott -- A New Heaven and a New Earth: Apocalypticism and Its Alternatives / Michael Kirwan

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