Violence and the Sacred

Violence and the Sacred by Rene Girard 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 links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy. More on Amazon » $26.00 (new) | $5.01 (used)

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