Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, Rene Girard, & Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation Hamerton-Kelly Robert G. Paperback
Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, Rene Girard, & Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation Hamerton-Kelly Robert G. Paperback Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and…
Specifikacia Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, Rene Girard, & Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation Hamerton-Kelly Robert G. Paperback
Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, Rene Girard, & Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation Hamerton-Kelly Robert G. Paperback
Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture. The special value of this volume is the conversations as such--the real record of working scholars engaged with one another's theories, as they make and meet challenges, and move and maneuver.Girard and Burkert present different versions of the same conviction: that a single theory can account for ritual and its social function, a theory that posits original acts of group violence. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion and culture, especially one based on violence.
Among the highlights of this stimulating interchange of ideas is a Smith sharply questions both the possibility and the utility of such a general theory.
