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Violence and the sacred /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Girard, René, 1923-2015
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1977.
Subjects:
Rites and ceremonies.
Sacrifice.
Sociale orde.
Geweld.
Riten.
Opoffering.
Gewalt.
Opfer.
Religion.
Sündenbock.
Table of Contents:
  • Sacrifice
  • The sacrificial crisis
  • Oedipus and the surrogate victim
  • The origins of myth and ritual
  • Dionysus
  • From mimetic desire to the monstrous double
  • Freud and the Oedipus complex
  • Totem and Taboo and the incest prohibition
  • Levi-Strauss, structuralism, and marriage laws
  • The gods, the dead, the sacred, and sacrificial substitution
  • The unity of all rites.