The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion

The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion

The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion

The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion

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Overview

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 René Girard’s 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781137552808
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date: 10/20/2017
Edition description: 1st ed. 2017
Pages: 549
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Alison, priest, theologian, and author, is a Fellow of Imitatio. He has been working with Girard’s thought since 1985 and has contributed to the field with a number of books, most recently the adult catechetical course “Jesus the Forgiving Victim.”

Wolfgang Palaver is Professor of Catholic Social Thought at the University of Innsbruck. From 2007 to 2011 he was president of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion. Recent publications: René Girard's Mimetic Theory (2013); The European Wars of Religion (2016).

Table of Contents

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

Mesoamerican Civilizations and Sacrifice

Miguel Rolland

Chapter 9

Çatalhöyük, Archaeology, Violence

Christopher J. Knüsel and Bonnie Glencross

Part II

FROM RITES TO WRITING

Chapter 10. Introduction

Wolfgang Palaver and Thomas Ryba

Chapter 11

Lévi-Strauss and Girard on Myth and Ritual

Lucien Scubla

Chapter 12

The Axial Moment and Its Critics: Jaspers, Bellah, and Voegelin

Stephen Gardner

Chapter 13

Monotheism and the Abrahamic Revolution: Moving Out of the Archaic Sacred

Wolfgang Palaver

Chapter 14

The Eastern Revolution: From the Vedas to Buddhism, Jainism, and the Upanishads

Brian Collins

Chapter 15

The Classical World: Sacrifice, Philosophy, and Religion

Nidesh Lawtoo

Chapter 16

The Transition from Orality to Writing: Mimetic Theory and Religion

Phil Rose

Chapter 17

Biblical Interpretation: Old and New Testaments, a New Hermeneutic(s)?

Robert J. Daly

Chapter 18

Theological Inversions: Raymund Schwager, Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly, and James G. Williams

Mathias Moosbrugger

Chapter 19

Oedipus and Greek Tragedy

Sandor Goodhart

Chapter 20

Nietzsche, Dionysos, and the Crucified

James G. Williams

Part III

THEOLOGICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Chapter 21. Introduction

James Alison and Martha Reineke

Chapter 22

An Epistemology of Revelation

John Ranieri

Chapter 23

Approaches to Atonement: How Girard Changes the Debate

S. Mark Heim

Chapter 24

Original Sin, Positive Mimesis

Petra Steinmair-Pösel

Chapter 25

Embodiment and Incarnation

Scott Cowdell

Chapter 26

Eucharist and Sacrifice: the Transformation of the Meaning of Sacrifice through Revelation

James Alison

Chapter 27

Girard and Augustine

Thomas Ryba

Chapter 28

Raymund Schwager: Dramatic Theology

Nikolaus Wandinger

Chapter 29

American Protestant Reception of Mimetic Theory: 1986-2015

Michael Hardin

Chapter 30

James Alison’s Theological Appropriation of Girard

John P. Edwards

Chapter 31

Levinas and the Prophetic Current

Sandor Goodhart

Chapter 32

Mysticism, Girard, and Simone Weil

Ann Astell

Chapter 33

From the Sacred to the Holy in the World’s Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism

Vanessa J. Avery

Part IV

SECULARIZATION AND MODERNITY

Chapter 34. Introduction

Paul Dumouchel and William A. Johnsen

Chapter 35

Secularization

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Chapter 36

The Barren Sacrifice

Paul Dumouchel

Chapter 37

The Economy as the Opium of the People

Bernard Perret

Chapter 38

“The Carnal Mind Rebels”: Christianity and the Witch Hunt

David Dawson

Chapter 39

Mimetic Theory, Religion, and Literature as Secular Scripture

William A. Johnsen

Chapter 40

The Development of the Self

Paolo Diego Bubbio

Chapter 41

Modern Pathologies and the Displacement of the Sacred

Emanuele Antonelli

Chapter 42

Ressentiment and the Turn to the Victim: Nietzsche, Weber, Scheler

Stefano Tomelleri

Chapter 43

René Girard and Charles Taylor: Complementary Engagements with the Crisis of Modernity

Wolfgang Palaver

Chapter 44

Secularization Revisited: Tocqueville, Asad, Bonhoeffer, Habermas

Scott Cowdell

Part V

APOCALYPSE, POST-MODERNITY, AND THE RETURN OF RELIGION

Chapter 45 Introduction

Wolfgang Palaver and Jeremiah Alberg

Chapter 46

The Return of Religion

Jeremiah Alberg

Chapter 47

Mimetic Theory And The Katēchon

Michael Kirwan

Chapter 48

Hӧlderlin and Heidegger: Which God Will Save Us?

Cyril O’Regan

Chapter 49

“The Apocalypse Has Begun”: Ivan Illich and René Girard on Anti-Christ

David Cayley

Chapter 50

Weak Faith

Frederick Depoortere

Chapter 51

Terrorism and Religion

Elisabetta Brighi

Chapter 52

Apocalypse: Hope Against All Hope

Bruce K. Ward

Chapter 53

Enlightened Doomsaying

Wilhelm Guggenberger

Part VI

ALTERNATIVE PARADIGMS

Chapter 54 Introduction

Paul Dumouchel

Chapter 55

The New Atheism: Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens

Grant Kaplan

Chapter 56

Scientific Evidence for the Foundational Role of Psychological Mimesis

Scott Garrels

Chapter 57

Cognitive Neuroscience and Religion

Warren S. Brown

Chapter 58

Generative Anthropology

Eric Gans

Chapter 59

Critiques of Girard’s Mimetic Theory

Trevor Cribben Merrill

Chapter 60<

A Theory of Everything? A Methodological Tale

Paul Dumouchel

Chapter 61

Mimetic Theory and Self-Criticism

Jean-Marc Bourdin

Part VII

APPROACHING THE CONTEMPORARY

Chapter 62 Introduction

Andrew McKenna and Sheelah Treflé Hidden

Chapter 63

Scandal

Jeremiah Alberg

Chapter 64

Terrorism and the Escalation of Violence

Duncan Morrow

Chapter 65

Religious Conflicts in the Contemporary World

Vern Neufeld Redekop

Chapter 66

Modern Confessional Movements

Kris Rocke

Chapter 67

Mimetic Insights into the Sacred in Film

Joel Hodge

Chapter 68

Resurgent Religious Themes in Contemporary Film

Chris Fleming

Chapter 69

Pastoral Outreach and Community Living

Adam Ericksen

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