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 Ren? Girards 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.
Part I
VIOLENT ORIGINS
Chapter 1. Introduction
James Alison and Paul Dumouchel
Chapter 2
An Essay on Hominization: Current Theories, Girardian-Darwinian Approaches
Paul Dumouchel
Chapter 3
The Emergence of Human Consciousness in a Religious Context
Pierpaolo Antonello
Chapter 4
Freud, Moses and Monotheism, and the Conversation between Mimetic Theory and Psychoanalysis
Kathryn M. Frost
Chapter 5
Kristeva and the Question of Origins
Martha J. Reineke
Chapter 6
Girard and Burkert: Hunting, Homo Necans, Guilt
Wolfgang Palaver
Chapter 7
Vengeance and the Gift
Mark R. Anspach
Chapter 8
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