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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"René Girard"”.
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René Girard, Sacrifice, and the Eucharist
… in light of the theory of sacrifice proposed by René Girard. Specifically, I consider the Eucharist within the context of the sacrificial nature of Christianity, a matter of some controversy as regards both the early thought of Girard and those who have taken up and developed his thought. In his …
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Who is like God? : divine versus demonic authority in the works of Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor.
… Fyodor Dostoevsky and Flannery O'Connor, using René Girard's theory of mimesis. O'Connor and Dostoevsky recognize the rejection of divine authority as the central religious problem of the modern world. Though their continents and centuries differ, the two writers lived in comparable cultures: …
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Towards A Politics of the Pure in Heart: Theological Reflections on Identities in Tension in Zambia
… of the conflicts in Zambia upon the work of René Girard. We do so in the initial belief that Girard's work, which is focused upon conflict and identity formation, will provide an effective and appropriate means to come to an adequate understanding of the conflicted aspects of Zambian life. …
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Politics as Violence: A Girardian Analysis of Pre-Genocide Rwandan Politics
… theorist outside traditional political theory — René Girard — and how they may shed some light on the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Girard's conception of mimetic rivalry and his theorization of scapegoating illuminate society-based characteristics of political competition between well-established …
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In Principio Erat Signum: Dueling Dionysianisms & Sacramental Semiotics In Thomistic & Mystical Franciscan Poetry
… grounded on the theories of Eric Gans and René Girard ensures that the adversarial ontology underlying postmodernity also underlies performatism, thus making of performatism a non-identical repetition of the paradigm it wishes to escape. If performatism is to be recovered for theological …
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Negotiating non-violent subjectivity in a desocialised world: narrative explorations of women's struggles against self-sacrifice.
… particular attention to the mimetic theory of René Girard. I crossreference Girard’s work with the work of other philosophers, theologians, sociologists and feminist critics to both test and challenge some of his central assertions and to explore what began as unconscious artistic resistances …
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My Blood of the (New) Covenant: An Assessment of René Girard's Soteriology in Light of the Covenantal Milieu of the Last Supper Sayings
This study assesses René Girard's claims regarding the Gospels' understanding of Jesus' death. Though Girard contends that the Gospels never depict Jesus' death as an atonement for sin, there are significant passages that Girard avoids discussing like the Last Supper sayings in the Synoptic …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
<p>This study offers a comparative analysis of Rosario Castellanos' <em>Balún-Canán</em> and Rudolfo Anaya's <em>Bless Me, Ultima,</em> novels that provide examples on how children construct their identity in hybrid communities in southeastern Mexico and the U.S. southwest. The protagonists grow …