Violence and the Sacred
- ISBN-10
- 0485113414
- ISBN-13
- 9780485113419
- Category
- Rites and ceremonies
- Pages
- 364
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1988-01-01
- Publisher
- A&C Black
- Author
- René Girard
Description
"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the 'heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."--Victor Brombert, Chronicle of Higher Education.
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