[PDF.66pu] Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation

Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation

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 | #810774 in Books |  Stanford University Press |  1988-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.80 x5.50l,.75 | File type: PDF | 296 pages

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||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A fine book|By Robert Tilewick|Approaching a broad array of anthropological, mythic themes, these essays are probing, unexpected, and fascinating. It's always a surprise, and refreshing, to come across essays reflecting such deep and original thought.| |'This fascinating book is the result of a conference that brought together, for the purpose of debate and dialogue, the authors of some of the most important, current theories about the origins and meaning of sacrifice ... This isa high-powered look at the top

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. 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. The special value of this volume is the conversations as such―the real record of working scholars engaged with one another's...

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