Overview
- The first introductory volume to gather articles from the world’s foremost scholars of mimetic theory and religion, and first major collective work of this scope on mimetic theory
- Makes a decisive contribution to the reassessment of our understanding of religion in the 21st century
- Shows the importance and relevance of mimetic theory to contemporary scholarly debates in theology, religious studies, anthropology, and philosophy, among other fields
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion draws on the expertise of leading scholars and thinkers to explore the violent origins of culture, the meaning of ritual, and the conjunction of theology and anthropology, as well as secularization, science, and terrorism. Authors assess the contributions of René Girard’s mimetic theory to our understanding of sacrifice, ancient tragedy, and post-modernity, and apply its insights to religious cinema and the global economy. This handbook serves as introduction and guide to a theory of religion and human behavior that has established itself as fertile terrain for scholarly research and intellectual reflection.
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Table of contents (70 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Violent Origins
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From Rites to Writing
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
James Alison, priest, theologian, and author, is a Fellow of Imitatio. He has been working with Girard’s thought since 1985 and has contributed to the field with a number of books, most recently the adult catechetical course “Jesus the Forgiving Victim.”
Wolfgang Palaver is Professor of Catholic Social Thought at the University of Innsbruck. From 2007 to 2011 he was president of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion. Recent publications: René Girard's Mimetic Theory (2013); The European Wars of Religion (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion
Editors: James Alison, Wolfgang Palaver
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53825-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55280-8Published: 20 October 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-53825-3Published: 19 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 549
Topics: Religious Studies, general, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Man