Violence and the sacred in the ancient Near East : Girardian conversation at Catalhoyuk / edited by Ian Hodder.

This volume brings together two groups engaged with understanding the relationships between religion and violence. The first group consists of scholars of the mimetic theory of Rene Girard, for whom human violence is rooted in the rivalry that stems from imitation. To manage this violence of all aga...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Other Authors: Hodder, Ian (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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