How is symbolic violence related to the real acts of religious violence around the modern world? The authors of this book, first published in 1992, explore this

René Girard (1923-) was Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford Unviersity from 1981 until his retirement in 1995. Violence and t

How is symbolic violence related to the real acts of religious violence around the modern world? The authors of this book, first published in 1992, explore this

Re-interpreting Durkheim's theory of the sacred, this book sets out a theory of the sacred for use across a range of humanities and social science disciplines a

"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