Violence and the Sacred </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Girard, René</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <namePart type="date">1923-</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">2:3</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>The John Hopkins University Press</publisher> <dateIssued>1977</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>333tr.</extent> <extent>Paperback, Illustration</extent> <extent>23 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Violence and the Sacred is René Girard's landmark study of human evil. Here Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">René Girard, Patrick Gregory</note> <subject> <topic>Religion</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Mythology</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Anthropology -- Social groups</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Violence</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">291.34</classification> <classification authority="ddc">G517-R40</classification> <identifier type="isbn">9780801822186, 0801822181</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15307/15.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/15307/15.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071450.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>