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The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion

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    Book Overview
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    Chapter 1 General Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Introduction
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    Chapter 3 An Essay on Hominization: Current Theories, Girardian–Darwinian Approaches
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    Chapter 4 The Emergence of Human Consciousness in a Religious Context
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    Chapter 5 Freud, Moses and Monotheism, and the Conversation Between Mimetic Theory and Psychoanalysis
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    Chapter 6 Kristeva and the Question of Origins
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    Chapter 7 Girard and Burkert: Hunting, Homo Necans, Guilt
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    Chapter 8 Vengeance and the Gift
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    Chapter 9 Mesoamerican Civilizations and Sacrifice
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    Chapter 10 Çatalhöyük, Archaeology, Violence
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    Chapter 11 Introduction
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    Chapter 12 Lévi-Strauss and Girard on Mythology and Ritual
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    Chapter 13 The Axial Moment and Its Critics: Jaspers, Bellah, and Voegelin
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    Chapter 14 Monotheism and the Abrahamic Revolution: Moving Out of the Archaic Sacred
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    Chapter 15 The Eastern Revolution: From the Vedas to Buddhism, Jainism, and the Upanishads
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    Chapter 16 The Classical World: Sacrifice, Philosophy, and Religion
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    Chapter 17 The Transition from Orality to Writing: Mimetic Theory and Religion
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    Chapter 18 Biblical Interpretation: Old and New Testaments, a New Hermeneutic(s)?
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    Chapter 19 Theological Inversions: Raymund Schwager, Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly, and James G. Williams
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    Chapter 20 Oedipus and Greek Tragedy
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    Chapter 21 Nietzsche, Dionysos, and the Crucified
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    Chapter 22 Introduction
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    Chapter 23 An Epistemology of Revelation
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    Chapter 24 Approaches to Atonement: How Girard Changes the Debate
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    Chapter 25 Original Sin, Positive Mimesis
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    Chapter 26 Embodiment and Incarnation
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    Chapter 27 Eucharist and Sacrifice: The Transformation of the Meaning of Sacrifice Through Revelation
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    Chapter 28 Girard and Augustine
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    Chapter 29 Raymund Schwager: Dramatic Theology
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    Chapter 30 American Protestant Reception of Mimetic Theory: 1986–2015
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    Chapter 31 James Alison’s Theological Appropriation of Girard
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    Chapter 32 Levinas and the Prophetic Current
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    Chapter 33 Mysticism, Girard, and Simone Weil
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    Chapter 34 From the Sacred to the Holy in the World’s Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism
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    Chapter 35 Introduction
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    Chapter 36 Secularization
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    Chapter 37 The Barren Sacrifice
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    Chapter 38 The Economy as the Opium of the People
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    Chapter 39 “The Carnal Mind Rebels”: The Unravelling Logic of the Salem Witch Hunt
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    Chapter 40 Mimetic Theory, Religion, and Literature as Secular Scripture
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    Chapter 41 The Development of the Self
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    Chapter 42 Modern Pathologies and the Displacement of the Sacred
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    Chapter 43 Ressentiment and the Turn to the Victim: Nietzsche, Weber, Scheler
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    Chapter 44 René Girard and Charles Taylor: Complementary Engagements with the Crisis of Modernity
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    Chapter 45 Secularization Revisited: Tocqueville, Asad, Bonhoeffer, Habermas
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    Chapter 46 Introduction
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    Chapter 47 The Return of Religion
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    Chapter 48 Mimetic Theory and the Katēchon
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    Chapter 49 Hӧlderlin and Heidegger: Which God Will Save Us?
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    Chapter 50 “The Apocalypse Has Begun”: Ivan Illich and René Girard on Anti-christ
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    Chapter 51 Weak Faith
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    Chapter 52 Terrorism and Religion
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    Chapter 53 Apocalypse: Hope Against All Hope
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    Chapter 54 Enlightened Doomsaying
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    Chapter 55 Introduction
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    Chapter 56 The New Atheism: Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens
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    Chapter 57 Scientific Evidence for the Foundational Role of Psychological Mimesis
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    Chapter 58 Cognitive Neuroscience and Religion
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    Chapter 59 Generative Anthropology
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    Chapter 60 Critiques of Girard’s Mimetic Theory
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    Chapter 61 A Theory of Everything? A Methodological Tale
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    Chapter 62 Mimetic Theory and Self-criticism
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    Chapter 63 Introduction
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    Chapter 64 Scandal
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    Chapter 65 Terrorism and the Escalation of Violence
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    Chapter 66 Religious Conflicts in the Contemporary World
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    Chapter 67 Modern Confessional Movements
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    Chapter 68 Mimetic Insights into the Sacred in Film
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    Chapter 69 Resurgent Religious Themes in Contemporary Film
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    Chapter 70 Pastoral Outreach and Community Living
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Title
The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion
Published by
Palgrave Macmillan US, January 2017
DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-53825-3
ISBNs
978-1-137-53825-3, 978-1-137-55280-8
Editors

James Alison, Wolfgang Palaver

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 19%
Other 3 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 8%
Researcher 3 8%
Student > Bachelor 3 8%
Other 6 17%
Unknown 11 31%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 9 25%
Social Sciences 5 14%
Philosophy 4 11%
Psychology 2 6%
Linguistics 1 3%
Other 3 8%
Unknown 12 33%