Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, Rene Girard, & Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation

by Jonathan Smith, René Girard, Walter Burkert, et al.

Book Overview

Burkert, Girard, and Smith hold important and contradictory theories about the nature and origin of ritual sacrifice, and the role violence plays in religion and culture. These papers and conversations derive from a conference that pursued the possibility and utility of a general theory of religion and culture, especially one based on violence. The special value of this volume is the conversations as such--the real record of working scholars engaged...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804715181
• ISBN13: 9780804715188
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.3"