The Palgrave handbook of mimetic theory and religion

"Editorial Board" -- "Girard’s Works" -- "Contents" -- "Editors and Contributors" -- "1 General Introduction" -- "Mimetic Theory, or, an Insight Made Rigorous" -- "Mimetic Desire" -- "The “Scapegoat” Mechanism" --...

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Contributors: Alison, James 1959- (Editor) ; Palaver, Wolfgang 1958- (Editor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: New York Palgrave Macmillan US 2017
In:Year: 2017
Reviews:[Rezension von: The Palgrave handbook of mimetic theory and religion] (2018) (Packer, Matthew)
[Rezension von: The Palgrave handbook of mimetic theory and religion] (2018) (Packer, Matthew)
[Rezension von: The Palgrave handbook of mimetic theory and religion] (2018) (Packer, Matthew)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Meme / Religion
Further subjects:B Collection of essays
B Girard, René (1923-2015)
B Religion
B Mnemonics
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Summary:"Editorial Board" -- "Girard’s Works" -- "Contents" -- "Editors and Contributors" -- "1 General Introduction" -- "Mimetic Theory, or, an Insight Made Rigorous" -- "Mimetic Desire" -- "The “Scapegoat” Mechanism" -- "The Subversion from Within of the Sacrifical Mechanism" -- "Some Consequences" -- "Toward a New Approach to “Religion”" -- "Violent Origins" -- "2 Introduction" -- "3 An Essay on Hominization: Current Theories, Girardian–Darwinian Approaches" -- "Current Theories" -- "Mimesis and Hominization" -- "Further Reading" -- "4 The Emergence of Human Consciousness in a Religious Context" -- "Evolution and Mimesis" -- "Sacrifice" -- "Attention-Grabbing and Strong Emotional Response" -- "Ecstatic Practices" -- "The Moral Obliquity of Sacrifice" -- "Symbolism and Mythical Narrative" -- "The Ritualistic and Mythical Mind" -- "Rites of Passage" -- "Further Reading" -- "5 Freud, Moses and Monotheism, and the Conversation Between Mimetic Theory and Psychoanalysis" -- "Oedipal Subject to Interdividuality" -- "The Founding Murder" -- "Moses and Monotheism" -- "Freud and Girard: An Ongoing Dialogue" -- "Further Reading" -- "6 Kristeva and the Question of Origins" -- "Further Reading" -- "7 Girard and Burkert: Hunting, Homo Necans, Guilt" -- "Violence and Religion" -- "Mimetic Rivalry as the Source of Human Violence" -- "Victimization and Guilt in Light of Biblical Revelation" -- "Further Reading" -- "8 Vengeance and the Gift" -- "Preventing Vengeance: The Logic of Sacrifice" -- "Prescribing Vengeance: The Vindicatory System" -- "Escaping Vengeance: The Logic of the Gift" -- "Further Reading" -- "9 Mesoamerican Civilizations and Sacrifice" -- "Further Reading" -- "10 Çatalhöyük, Archaeology, Violence" -- "Violence at Neolithic Çatalhöyük" -- "Blunt Force Trauma and Sling Stones" -- "A Potential Scapegoat" -- "Conclusion
"Further Reading" -- "From Rites to Writing" -- "11 Introduction" -- "Further Reading" -- "12 Lévi-Strauss and Girard on Mythology and Ritual" -- "Abandoning the Social, Repressing the Religious" -- "The Dismemberment of Myths and Rituals, and the “Spiral” Method" -- "The Lesson of Myths and the Expulsion of Ritual" -- "The Return of Ritual" -- "Conclusion" -- "Further Reading" -- "13 The Axial Moment and Its Critics: Jaspers, Bellah, and Voegelin" -- "Girard and the Axial Age" -- "Further Reading" -- "14 Monotheism and the Abrahamic Revolution: Moving Out of the Archaic Sacred" -- "The Archaic Sacred: Peace Built on Violence" -- "The Biblical Difference" -- "Islam as Part of an Abrahamic Revolution" -- "The Cult of the Victim: Temptations Accompanying the Abrahamic Revolution" -- "Further Reading" -- "15 The Eastern Revolution: From the Vedas to Buddhism, Jainism, and the Upanishads" -- "Ritual and Rivalry: The Vedas" -- "Beyond the Sacrifice: The Upaniṣads and Vedānta" -- "Non-violence and Nirvāna: Buddhism and Jainism" -- "Further Reading" -- "16 The Classical World: Sacrifice, Philosophy, and Religion" -- "Beginning with Sacrifice: Girard’s Return to Tragedy" -- "Ancient Pharmakoi: Plato to Aristotle" -- "Dionysian Philologists: Nietzsche to the Cambridge Ritualists" -- "The Return of the Sacred: Sacrifice to Homo Sacer" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Further Reading" -- "17 The Transition from Orality to Writing: Mimetic Theory and Religion" -- "Mimetic Culture" -- "Oral Culture" -- "Chirographic Culture" -- "Conclusion" -- "Further Reading" -- "18 Biblical Interpretation: Old and New Testaments, a New Hermeneutic(s)?" -- "Figural/Typological Interpretation" -- "Historical Criticism" -- "The Universality of Mimetic Theory" -- "Further Reading" -- "19 Theological Inversions: Raymund Schwager, Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly, and James G. Williams
"Raymund Schwager" -- "Robert Hamerton-Kelly" -- "James Williams" -- "Conclusion" -- "Further Reading" -- "20 Oedipus and Greek Tragedy" -- "The Enemy Twins" -- "After Violence and the Sacred" -- "The Meaning of Girard’s Use of the Oedipus Figure" -- "Further Reading" -- "21 Nietzsche, Dionysos, and the Crucified" -- "Introduction" -- "Wagner, Dionysos, and Christ" -- "The Antichrist" -- "The Founding Murder" -- "Further Reading" -- "Theological Anthropology" -- "22 Introduction" -- "Theology and Anthropology in Girard" -- "An Open Question" -- "23 An Epistemology of Revelation" -- "Further Reading" -- "24 Approaches to Atonement: How Girard Changes the Debate" -- "Further Reading" -- "25 Original Sin, Positive Mimesis" -- "Original Sin" -- "Positive Mimesis" -- "Further Reading" -- "26 Embodiment and Incarnation" -- "Embodiment, Philosophy, and Mimetic Theory" -- "Revelation, Incarnation, and “Incarnationalism”" -- "Conclusion" -- "Further Reading" -- "27 Eucharist and Sacrifice: The Transformation of the Meaning of Sacrifice Through Revelation" -- "The Sacrificial Nature of Culture" -- "Sacrifice and not Sacrifice" -- "One True Sacrifice and not a Sacrifice at All" -- "Life and Liturgy" -- "Further Reading" -- "28 Girard and Augustine" -- "Similarities Between Girard and Augustine" -- "Reception of Claims About the Similarities Between Augustine and Girard" -- "Augustine’s Influence on Girard" -- "A Girardian Approach to Influence and Originality" -- "Directions for Future Research" -- "Further Reading" -- "29 Raymund Schwager: Dramatic Theology" -- "Introduction" -- "Biography" -- "Encounter with Girard" -- "Sacrifice" -- "Human Nature" -- "Reading the Bible" -- "Dramatic Theology" -- "Sources and Development" -- "Research Program and Hermeneutical Tools" -- "School of Theology" -- "Further Reading
"30 American Protestant Reception of Mimetic Theory: 1986–2015" -- "Scholarly Engagement with Mimetic Theory" -- "Popular Dissemination of Mimetic Theory" -- "Mimetic Theory in Social Media" -- "Further Reading" -- "31 James Alison’s Theological Appropriation of Girard" -- "Further Reading" -- "32 Levinas and the Prophetic Current" -- "Further Reading" -- "33 Mysticism, Girard, and Simone Weil" -- "Further Reading" -- "34 From the Sacred to the Holy in the World’s Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism" -- "Judaism" -- "Christianity" -- "Islam" -- "Hinduism" -- "Buddhism" -- "Further Reading" -- "Secularization and Modernity" -- "35 Introduction" -- "36 Secularization" -- "Disenchantment or Desacralization of the World?" -- "Girard’s Account of the Modern World" -- "The Economy and the Sacred" -- "The Bomb, a New Sacrament for Humanity" -- "Is There Such a Thing as Religious Violence?" -- "Further Reading" -- "37 The Barren Sacrifice" -- "Further Reading" -- "38 The Economy as the Opium of the People" -- "The Market Economy: A Self-regulated and Non-violent Social System" -- "The Economy Through the Lens of Mimetic Theory" -- "Violence and Sacrifice in the Economy" -- "The Crucial Role of Economic Growth" -- "Ecological Crisis: Threat or Opportunity?" -- "Further Reading" -- "39 “The Carnal Mind Rebels”: The Unravelling Logic of the Salem Witch Hunt" -- "The Salem Proceedings" -- "Conclusion" -- "Further Reading" -- "40 Mimetic Theory, Religion, and Literature as Secular Scripture" -- "Further Reading" -- "41 The Development of the Self" -- "The Interdividual Psychology of the Self" -- "The Modern Development of the Self" -- "The Self in Mimetic Theory Scholarship" -- "Further Reading" -- "42 Modern Pathologies and the Displacement of the Sacred" -- "Mediations" -- "Pathologies" -- "Displacements" -- "Further Reading
"43 Ressentiment and the Turn to the Victim: Nietzsche, Weber, Scheler" -- "Introduction" -- "The Revolt of the Slaves" -- "The Theodicy of the Disprivileged" -- "The Awareness of Impotence" -- "The Mimetic Nature of Our Ressentiment" -- "Further Reading" -- "44 René Girard and Charles Taylor: Complementary Engagements with the Crisis of Modernity" -- "Disenchantment and Homo Religiosus" -- "Scapegoating and the Cult of the Victim" -- "A Culture of Forgiveness" -- "Further Reading" -- "45 Secularization Revisited: Tocqueville, Asad, Bonhoeffer, Habermas" -- "Similarities and Divergences" -- "Modernity and Secularization" -- "Secularization and Christianity" -- "The Return of the False Sacred" -- "Further Reading" -- "Apocalypse, Post-Modernity, and the Return of Religion" -- "46 Introduction" -- "47 The Return of Religion" -- "To What Does “The Return of Religion” Refer?" -- "How Mimetic Theory Helps Us to Understand “The Return of Religion”" -- "Further Reading" -- "48 Mimetic Theory and the Katēchon" -- "Further Reading" -- "49 HÓlderlin and Heidegger: Which God Will Save Us?" -- "Further Reading" -- "50 “The Apocalypse Has Begun”: Ivan Illich and René Girard on Anti-christ" -- "Ivan Illich" -- "René Girard" -- "Conclusion" -- "Further Reading" -- "51 Weak Faith" -- "The Emergence of Weak Thought" -- "Vattimo’s Reception of Girard" -- "Vattimo’s Weak Christianity" -- "Concluding Observations on Vattimo’s Proposal for a Weak Christianity from the Perspective of Mimetic Theory" -- "Further Reading" -- "52 Terrorism and Religion" -- "Mimetic Theory, Violence and Terrorism" -- "The Return of Religion, the Return of Terrorism?" -- "The End of Mediations and the Globalization of Resentment" -- "The Two Sides of Mimesis: Terrorism and Global Society" -- "Further Reading" -- "53 Apocalypse: Hope Against All Hope
"Apocalypse and Revelation: Key Features
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