Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Vol.I: Girard`s Mimetic Theory Across the Discipliness

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Finding our Bearings Gene Girard, Modernity, and Apocalypse ............3 2. Biblical Studies Like Being dragged through a Bush backwards: Hints of the Shape of Conversion`s Adventure........19 Finding the way: How to study scripture with the Help of Scripture and the Desert Fathers .................34 Sacred Men and Sacred Goats: Mimetic Theory in Levitical and Passion Intertext ......50 3. Theology Beyond Locked Doors: The Breath of the Risen one .........69 Torture and Faith : The Violent Sacred and christian Resistance in east timor .........86 Girard and the Tasks of Theology ....105 4. Literary Studies Rene Girard, Jacques Derrida`s The Gift of Death , and Salman Rushdie ...129 Grace can be Violent: Flannery O`connor`s Novelistic Truth ...........150 5. HIstory and Political Thought Europe and enmity : How christian can Contribute to a Positive Identity ..........171 Herodian aspects of the English Reformation Monarchy : Anglican Brutality and Girardian Insight ........182 Human Rights : Controlling the Uncontrollable .......205 6. Developments and Critiques Hard Evidence for Girardian Mimetic Theory? Intersubjectivity and Mirror Neurons ........219 Nietzsche, The Last Atheist ........227 Is all Desire Mimetic ? Lonergan and Girard on the Nature of Desire and Authenticity ..............251