Violence and the sacred
By: Girard, Rene.
Contributor(s): Gregory, Patrick [tr.].
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BookPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979Description: vii, 333 p. ; ill., 23 cm.ISBN: 9780801822186 .Subject(s): Rites and ceremonies | Sacrifice | Oedipus Complex | Myth | Ritual | Dionysus | Mimetic Desire | Freud | Toten and Taboo | Structuralism | Marriage laws | Sacrificial SubstitutionDDC classification: 291.34 Summary: His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy.
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| 291.2 ZIZ On Belief | 291.213 MEG સોરઠી સંતો/ Sorathi santo | 291.3 ELI Forge and the crucible | 291.34 GIR Violence and the sacred | 291.34 GRE Violence and the sacred | 291.3501 SMI To take place : toward theory in ritual | 291.37 ELI Images and symbols: studies in religious symbolism |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the `heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy.
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