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

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

Walter Burkert, René Girard, Jonathan Z. Smith, Jonathan Smith

292 pages • first pub 1987 (editions)

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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 pos...

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