Alison, James
The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion
1. General Introduction
James Alison, Wolfgang Palaver
Part I. Violent Origins
2. Introduction
James Alison, Paul Dumouchel
3. An Essay on Hominization: Current Theories, Girardian–Darwinian Approaches
Paul Dumouchel
4. The Emergence of Human Consciousness in a Religious Context
Pierpaolo Antonello
5. Freud,
Kathryn M. Frost
6. Kristeva and the Question of Origins
Martha J. Reineke
7. Girard and Burkert: Hunting,
Wolfgang Palaver
8. Vengeance and the Gift
Mark R. Anspach
9. Mesoamerican Civilizations and Sacrifice
Miguel Rolland
10. Çatalhöyük, Archaeology, Violence
Christopher J. Knüsel, Bonnie Glencross
Part II. From Rites to Writing
11. Introduction
Wolfgang Palaver, Thomas Ryba
12. Lévi-Strauss and Girard on Mythology and Ritual
Lucien Scubla
13. The Axial Moment and Its Critics: Jaspers, Bellah, and Voegelin
Stephen Gardner
14. Monotheism and the Abrahamic Revolution: Moving Out of the Archaic Sacred
Wolfgang Palaver
15. The Eastern Revolution: From the Vedas to Buddhism, Jainism, and the Upanishads
Brian Collins
16. The Classical World: Sacrifice, Philosophy, and Religion
Nidesh Lawtoo
17. The Transition from Orality to Writing: Mimetic Theory and Religion
Phil Rose
18. Biblical Interpretation: Old and New Testaments, a New Hermeneutic(s)?
Robert J. Daly
19. Theological Inversions: Raymund Schwager, Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly, and James G. Williams
Mathias Moosbrugger
20. Oedipus and Greek Tragedy
Sandor Goodhart
21. Nietzsche, Dionysos, and the Crucified
James G. Williams
Part III. Theological Anthropology
22. Introduction
James Alison, Martha J. Reineke
23. An Epistemology of Revelation
John Ranieri
24. Approaches to Atonement: How Girard Changes the Debate
S. Mark Heim
25. Original Sin, Positive Mimesis
Petra Steinmair-Pösel
26. Embodiment and Incarnation
Scott Cowdell
27. Eucharist and Sacrifice: The Transformation of the Meaning of Sacrifice Through Revelation
James Alison
28. Girard and Augustine
Thomas Ryba
29. Raymund Schwager: Dramatic Theology
Nikolaus Wandinger
30. American Protestant Reception of Mimetic Theory: 1986–2015
Michael Hardin
31. James Alison’s Theological Appropriation of Girard
John P. Edwards
32. Levinas and the Prophetic Current
Sandor Goodhart
33. Mysticism, Girard, and Simone Weil
Ann Astell
34. From the Sacred to the Holy in the World’s Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism
Vanessa J. Avery
Part IV. Secularization and Modernity
35. Introduction
Paul Dumouchel, William A. Johnsen
36. Secularization
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
37. The Barren Sacrifice
Paul Dumouchel
38. The Economy as the Opium of the People
Bernard Perret
39. “The Carnal Mind Rebels”: The Unravelling Logic of the Salem Witch Hunt
David Dawson
40. Mimetic Theory, Religion, and Literature as Secular Scripture
William A. Johnsen
41. The Development of the Self
Paolo Diego Bubbio
42. Modern Pathologies and the Displacement of the Sacred
Emanuele Antonelli
43. Ressentiment and the Turn to the Victim: Nietzsche, Weber, Scheler
Stefano Tomelleri
44. René Girard and Charles Taylor: Complementary Engagements with the Crisis of Modernity
Wolfgang Palaver
45. Secularization Revisited: Tocqueville, Asad, Bonhoeffer, Habermas
Scott Cowdell
Part V. Apocalypse, Post-Modernity, and the Return of Religion
46. Introduction
Jeremiah Alberg, Wolfgang Palaver
47. The Return of Religion
Jeremiah Alberg
48. Mimetic Theory and the
Michael Kirwan
49. Hӧlderlin and Heidegger: Which God Will Save Us?
Cyril O’Regan
50. “The Apocalypse Has Begun”: Ivan Illich and René Girard on Anti-christ
David Cayley
51. Weak Faith
Frederiek Depoortere
52. Terrorism and Religion
Elisabetta Brighi
53. Apocalypse: Hope Against All Hope
Bruce K. Ward
54. Enlightened Doomsaying
Wilhelm Guggenberger
Part VI. Alternative Paradigms
55. Introduction
Paul Dumouchel
56. The New Atheism: Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens
Grant Kaplan
57. Scientific Evidence for the Foundational Role of Psychological Mimesis
Scott Garrels
58. Cognitive Neuroscience and Religion
Warren S. Brown
59. Generative Anthropology
Eric Gans
60. Critiques of Girard’s Mimetic Theory
Trevor Cribben Merrill
61. A Theory of Everything? A Methodological Tale
Paul Dumouchel
62. Mimetic Theory and Self-criticism
Jean-Marc Bourdin
Part VII. Approaching the Contemporary
63. Introduction
Andrew McKenna, Sheelah Treflé Hidden
64. Scandal
Jeremiah Alberg
65. Terrorism and the Escalation of Violence
Duncan Morrow
66. Religious Conflicts in the Contemporary World
Vern Neufeld Redekop
67. Modern Confessional Movements
Kris Rocke
68. Mimetic Insights into the Sacred in Film
Joel Hodge
69. Resurgent Religious Themes in Contemporary Film
Chris Fleming
70. Pastoral Outreach and Community Living
Adam Ericksen
Keywords: Religious Studies, Religious Studies, general, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Man
- Editor
- Alison, James
- Palaver, Wolfgang
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 27 pages
- Category
- Religions
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781137538253
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-137-55280-8