Violence and the sacred /

This study of good and evil examines the presence of ritual violence in sacred ceremony.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Girard, René, 1923-2015 (Author)
Other Authors: Gregory, Patrick (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1977]
Subjects:
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.