Curing Violence

by Wallace, Mark I.; Smith, Theophus H.

• ISBN13: 9780944344439
• ISBN10: 0944344437
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-11-01
• Publisher: Polebridge Pr Westar Inst

Table of Contents

Contributors
Rene Girard: A Selective Bibliography
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Editors' Introduction
Religion and the Thought of Rene Girard: An Introduction	p. 3
Religion and the Philosophers of Mimesis	p. 25
Sacrificial Violence in Homer's Iliad	p. 45
"Steadfast Love and Not Sacrifice": A Nonsacrificial Reading of the Hebrew Scriptures	p. 71
Before the Law: Un/rivaling the Old Testament	p. 100
An Ungodly Resemblance: Colonial Violence and Inca Analogies to Christianity	p. 121
"Provoked Suicide" and the Victim's Behavior: The Case of the Vietnamese Self-Immolators	p. 137
"You Will Reap Just What You Sow": The Vietnam War Poetry of Donald G. Kemp	p. 161
Violence-Religion-Law: A Girardian Analysis	p. 182
Levite Violence, Fratricide, and Sacrifice in the Bible and Later Revolutionary Rhetoric	p. 204
King and the Black Religious Quest to Cure Racism	p. 230
Victims on Violence: "Different Voices" and Girard	p. 252
Gender, Violence, and Transformation in Alice Walker's The Color Purple	p. 266
Apocalyptic Religion in Christian Fundamentalism	p. 287
Works Consulted	p. 305
Index of Biblical Passages	p. 321
Index of Authors and Subjects	p. 324
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