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



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Titolo: Can we survive our origins? : readings in Rene Girard's theory of violence and the sacred / / edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Paul Gifford Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: East Lansing, Michigan : , : Michigan State University Press, , 2015
©2015
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (388 p.)
Disciplina: 203.4
Soggetto topico: Violence - Religious aspects
Sacred books - History and criticism
Religions - Relations
Persona (resp. second.): AntonelloPierpaolo
GiffordPaul
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: ""Contents""; ""Foreword / Rowan Williams""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One. The Programming of Origins: Sacred Violence and Its Legacy""; ""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""""Part Two. Rebooting Evolutionary Survival: Is Christianity Crucial?""; ""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""; ""Part Three. Violent Reciprocities and Peace-Making in the Contemporary World""
""Nuclear Apocalypse: The Balance of Terror and Girardian “Misrecognition� / Jean-Pierre Dupuy""""Responses to 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""; ""About the Authors""; ""Index""
Titolo autorizzato: Can we survive our origins  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-62895-035-8
1-60917-435-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910807146603321
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Serie: Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.