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Compelling voices charge that the theological notion of “sacrifice” valorizes suffering and fosters a culture of violence by the claim that Christ’s death on the Cross paid for human sins. Beneath the ‘sacred’ violence of sacrifice, René... more
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      Systematic TheologyAsceticismRene GirardThe Atonement
Papers by Emanuele Antonelli, Antonio Carnevale, Barbara Carnevali, Lucio Cortella, Paul Dumouchel and Christian Lazzeri, ISBN 8854863084
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      History and theory of recognitionRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
The usual criticisms of critical race theory (CRT) have become patent and cliché by now. CRT essentializes race and those within races, figuring all white people as racist and all black people as oppressed. It treats people not as... more
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      Critical Race TheoryRene GirardRené GirardCritical Whiteness Studies
based on salient points of queer theory, including mimetic desire, homosexual panic, the apparitional lesbian, the triangularity of desire and the figure of two-in-one. These theories are adapted and expanded to explain the bisexual and... more
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      French CinemaQueer TheoryGender and SexualitySymbiosis
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      SecularizationSacred (Religion)René GirardRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
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      English LiteratureShakespeareMimetic TheoryRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
I wish I would first have checked to see what the Gospel reading was for this Sunday before I volunteered to preside at this service. The Gospel reading is a doosey of a text. “Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth?... more
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      Peace and Conflict StudiesTheologyBiblical StudiesRené Girard
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      EthicsHermeneuticsReligious ConversionRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
Proceedings of the International Conference “Humanities and Social Sciences Today. Classical and
Contemporary Issues” – Philosophy and Other Humanities, Iasi, 2015
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ll seguente articolo è comparso per la prima volta, diviso in due parti pubblicate il 7 e il 12 novembre 2015, sul blog letterario Poetarum Silva. Ad Andrea Accardi va il sentito ringraziamento dell'autore.
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      Marcel ProustA la recherche du temps perduRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'Littérature Française Du XXe Siècle
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      AestheticsMass CommunicationEmotional ContagionMimetic Theory
Esta publicação é fruto do colóquio Múltiplo Machado, realizado pela e na Casa de Leitura Dirce Côrtes Riedel entre os dias 27 e 30 de abril de 2015 por ocasião do centenário de nascimento da ilustre professora a quem a casa é dedicada.... more
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      Latin American StudiesPortuguese and Brazilian LiteratureMimesisBrazilian Studies
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      Elsa MoranteRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
An attempt to read Plato's Republic through the lens of Rene Girard's mimetic theory.
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      PlatoMimetic TheoryRené GirardPlato's Republic
Il presente contributo concerne, essenzialmente, temi che emergono dalla prima produzione di René Girard, quella definita di «critica letteraria», e che sono apparsi, in parte almeno, debitori della riflessione di un autore come Jules de... more
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      Philosophy Of ReligionMimesisPhilosophy of ArtContinental Philosophy
Pour la victime de la violence, et pour toute personne qui la condamne, la première pensée qui s'impose n'est--elle pas de prendre la fuite ou de faire appel à un acte répressif extérieur ? Mettre hors circuit, déplacer ailleurs. Il... more
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      EthicsViolenceContinental PhilosophyÉmmanuel Lévinas
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      ReligionTheologyAquinasThomas Aquinas
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      Littérature FrançaiseRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
Avvertito in anni recenti come tema sospetto "che non gode buona fama in molti ambienti cristiani" 1 e quindi da rimuovere, il sacrificio torna in anni recentissimi ad essere di nuovo categoria apprezzata. Afferma infatti G. LAFONT nella... more
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      Rene GirardMimetic TheoryRené GirardAntropología
The objective of this paper is to suggest ways in which René Girard's mimetic theory of scandals and social crisis might help deepen our understanding of the dynamics of media and political scandals in the 21st century.
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      Crisis communication and managementRené GirardScandalsPolitical Scandals
Popularna opinia, którą znamy z nauk humanistycznych głosi, iż przedmioty naszego pożądania są przez nas wybierane w sposób indywidualny i autonomiczny. Szczególnie pojęcie prawa do realizacji własnych pragnień akcentowane jest w takich... more
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      Rene GirardRené GirardRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
September, a poem by Geo Milev, represents an attempt to symbolically overcome the crisis of the Bulgarian society connected to the September uprising. The poem is constructed on a sacrificial model, through which an actual defeat can be... more
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      Avant-GardeSacrifice (Anthropology Of Religion)Tragedy (Philosophy)Rene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
A philosophical introduction to the concept of chastity seen in the phenomenological light of its interaction with the cultural frame of a technological society, with reference to Heidegger, the search for authenticity with reference to... more
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      Philosophical AnthropologyHans-Georg GadamerRené GirardHeidegger and Technology
Rene Girard gândește imitația (mimesis) dinspre dorință, ca temei al dorinței. Dorința umană este constitutiv si structural imitativă. Având o dimensiune afectivă, dinamică și achizitivă, dorința mimetică e mai mult decât o simplă copie a... more
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Según la Teoría Mimética, en las democracias nunca hay consenso sobre quién es el culpable de los grandes problemas. Cada partido señala a sus propias víctimas propiciatorias. En la medida en que los villanos de unos son los héroes de los... more
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Cheerleading – an activity with origins in the elite, male-dominated domain of the late 19th century American university campus – is now a highly commodified and mass mediated feminised spectacle which attracts intense vitriol from a... more
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      Sociology of SportNew MediaFeminist TheorySports History
« Il n'y a pas de science politique pure », affirme René Girard . Face à ce constat, élaborer une lecture politique de René Girard, dont l'œuvre ne porte pas a-priori sur l'étude du mode d'organisation de la cité, sur la politique comme... more
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      René GirardRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
En esta obra se sistematizan las principales aportaciones de la teoría mimética al análisis político. Una parte importante de estas ideas proviene de la obra misma de René Girard, pero hay otra parte, igual de importante, que se encuentra... more
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Horkheimer e Adorno pensano innanzitutto a Sade e, meno plausibilmente, a Hobbes e de Maistre (Canetti concorderà su questo punto). 3. Mi permetto di rinviare al mio Studi sull'idea di potenza. Le radici giuridiche e teologiche della... more
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      EthologyPolitical PhilosophyPolitical AnthropologyFriedrich Nietzsche
This paper will address René Girard's critique of the "humanization of nothingness" in modern Western philosophy. I will first explain how the "de-sire for death" is related to a phenomenon that Girard refers to as "obstacle addiction ."... more
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      AnthropologyViolenceDeathHegel
Taking as its point of departure the existing critical literature on the intersections between René Girard’s and Giorgio Agamben’s anthropogenetic theories, this essay aims to add further considerations to the debate by discussing some of... more
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      SovereigntyGiorgio AgambenRené GirardRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
Mémoire de fin d'études. Tesi di laurea triennale. Le indicazioni spaziali contenute nella poesia Mystique di Rimbaud, ci hanno permesso di tracciare mentalmente uno schema preciso che ci ha condotto all’elaborazione di un’ipotesi... more
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      ReligionPhilosophyPhilosophy Of ReligionBiblical Studies
René Girard in his model of the “triangular desire” (mimetic desire) describes various formations of the triangle comprising of a subject, an object and a mediator. He stresses that in this triple relationship where the spatial metaphor... more
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      René GirardYunus EmreMimetic Theory, Mimetic DesireRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
There  is  a  connection  between René  Girard's  Mimetic  Desire  and Gregory  Bateson's  Schismogenesis.
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      AnthropologySocial AnthropologyGregory BatesonRené Girard
Tóth, P.: Ember, erőszak, vallás - René Girard mimetikus elmélete. In: Szilárdi, R., & Szugyiczki, Zs. (2017): Metszet és perspektíva: tanulmányok az alkalmazott valláskutatás területéről. Szeged, JATEPress K., pp. 247-266. In this... more
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      Study of ReligionsMimetic TheoryRené GirardRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
Patrick Bateman, the notorious dystagonist of Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho, is an obtrusively sexist, racist, classist serial killer. Importantly, Bateman, who perceives most of those around him as excremental “dirt,” sets out on a... more
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      American LiteratureCultural StudiesAmerican StudiesMedia Studies
ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study is to analyze a phenomenical light and shadow of Korean Christian journalism and to present a constructive direction which Korean Christian journalism needs to step forward in the basis of René Girard’s... more
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      JournalismTheologySystematic TheologyRené Girard
This article discusses the history of the Yazidis and their struggle for survival, following numerous genocides and migrations in the Middle East. It also sheds light on the challenging nature of the conflict between Muslims and Yazidis... more
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      MimesisMimetic TheoryYazidiRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
A presente monografia trata do conceito da violência sagrada proposto por René Girard em sua obra A Violência e o Sagrado (1972), a fim de revelar a violência fundadora do Estado democrático de direito, especificamente, da instituição... more
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      ViolenceSacred (Religion)Punishment and PrisonsViolência
Atonement theory has long been a point of contention in the study of the sacraments and the liturgy. Many scholars wish to reject Anselmian atonement on the grounds that it portrays God as vengeful. In this paper, I will use the work of... more
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      AestheticsTheologyLiturgyRomano Guardini
ABSTRACT: This paper investigates the relationship between Christian discipleship and education through the lens of Girard’s “mimetic desire,” and how 1 Pet 5:1–5 (especially the hapax συμπρεσβύτερος/sympresbyteros) can be informed by... more
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      TheologyChristian EducationNew TestamentMimesis
In Bakhtin's opinion, "the relation to meaning is always dialogic. Even understanding itself is dialogic." Particularly, the art of acting is such a dialogic relationship that fuses character and interpreter (performer) in the same unity... more
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      Performing ArtsTheatre StudiesTheatre HistoryMimesis
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      ReligionRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
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      Systematic TheologyFriedrich NietzscheMimetic TheoryOriginal Sin
Often successful and powerful women, such as prominent female politicians − are increasingly the target of verbal violence and insults, which are amplified in an echoic way by social media. On the basis of two case studies of verbal... more
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      Verbal AggressionRene Girard 'Mimetic Theory'
In this study, we try to identify some concepts from J.-P. Sartre's book "Being and Nothingness" (1943) which we believe has decisively influenced the inception of Rene Girard's mimetic theory in his first book. We think we could qualify... more
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