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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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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

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Sacrifice
Chapter 2. The Sacrificial Crisis
Chapter 3. Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim
Chapter 4. The Origins of Myth and Ritual
Chapter 5. Dionysus
Chapter 6. From Mimetic Desire to the Monstrous Double
Chapter 7. Freud and the Oedipus Comples
Chapter 8. Totem and Taboo and the Incest Prohibition
Chapter 9. Lévi-Strauss, Structuralism, and Marriage Laws
Chapter 10. The Gods, the Dead, the Sacred, and Sacrificial Substitution
Chapter 11. The Unity of All Rites
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Violence and the Sacred

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 February 1979
      ISBN-13 9780801822186
      978-0801822186
      ISBN-10 0801822181
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      Violence and abuse in society Religion and beliefs

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.'

      Trade Review
      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

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Chapter 1. Sacrifice
      Chapter 2. The Sacrificial Crisis
      Chapter 3. Oedipus and the Surrogate Victim
      Chapter 4. The Origins of Myth and Ritual
      Chapter 5. Dionysus
      Chapter 6. From Mimetic Desire to the Monstrous Double
      Chapter 7. Freud and the Oedipus Comples
      Chapter 8. Totem and Taboo and the Incest Prohibition
      Chapter 9. Lévi-Strauss, Structuralism, and Marriage Laws
      Chapter 10. The Gods, the Dead, the Sacred, and Sacrificial Substitution
      Chapter 11. The Unity of All Rites
      Conclusion
      Bibliography
      Index

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