Books written by Wolfgang Palaver
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René Girard's Mimetic Theory
A highly accessible book, this text is complemented by bibliographical references to Girard’s widespread work and secondary literature on mimetic theory and its applications, comprising a valuable bibliographical archive that provides the ...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion
Leonardo López-Luján, “Offerings,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mesoamerican Cultures, ed. David Carrasco (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 403; however, findings in the Tehuacan Valley of Central Mexico suggest possible ...
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The European Wars of Religion: An Interdisciplinary Reassessment of Sources, Interpretations, and Myths
In order to more thoroughly interrogate these concepts and assumptions, this volume focusses on terms repeatedly used and misused in public debates such as "religious violence" and "holy warfare" within the context of military conflicts ...
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René Girards mimetische Theorie: im Kontext kulturtheoretischer und gesellschaftspolitischer Fragen
Baudler , Georg : Die Befreiung von einem Gott der Gewalt . Erlösung in der Religionsgeschichte von Judentum , Christentum und Islam . Düsseldorf 1999 . Baudler , Georg : Ursünde Gewalt . Das Ringen um Gewaltfreiheit . Düsseldorf 2001 .
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Mimetic Theory and World Religions
This volume collects engagements with Girard by scholars of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism and situates them within contemporary theology, philosophy, and religious studies.
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Passions in Economy, Politics, and the Media: In Discussion with Christian Theology
This is the moral economy of the Jazz Age ; roman- tic myths of freedom furnish its " economic " basis , its driving passions . In modern democracy , the myths that unify society are less communal " religious " ones and more ...
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Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion with René Girard
... God Will Save Us?” in Alison, J. and Palaver, W. (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, pp. 371–377. Ogden, M. (1991) The Problem of Christ in the Work of Friedrich Hölderlin. Texts ...