01837nam a2200313 a 450000500170000000800200001702000150003704000060005204100100005808200130006808200130008110000190009410000160011310000110012924500520014024500550019226000110024726000240025826000090028230000110029130000140030230000090031652009740032565000440129965000350134365000280137865000250140685600920143120260119070742.02022-09-22 17:16:06  a0804722153  a1  a0 eng  a231.7652  bG517-R40  aGirard, René  d(1923-2015)  eAuthor  aThings Hidden Since the Foundation of the World  cRené Girard, Jean-Michel Oughourlian, Guy Lefort  aU.S.A.  bStanford University  c1987  a469tr.  bpaperback  c23cm  aAn astonishing work of cultural criticism, this book is widely recognized as a brilliant and devastating challenge to conventional views of literature, anthropology, religion, and psychoanalysis. The repression of this collective murder and its repetition in ritual sacrifice then formed the foundations of both religion and the restored social order. How does Christianity, at once the most `sacrificial` of religions and faith with a non-violent ideology, fit into this scheme? Girard grants Freud's point, in Totem and Taboo, that Christianity is similar to primitive religion, but only to refute Freud--if Christ is sacrificed, Girard argues, it is not because God willed it, but because human beings wanted it. The book is not merely, or perhaps not mainly, biblical exegesis, for within its scope fall some of the most vexing problems of social history--the paradox that violence has social efficacy, the function of the scapegoat, the mechanism of anti-semitism.  aChristianity -- Essence, genius, nature  aCriticism, interpretation, etc  aPsychology -- Religious  aReligion and culture4 uhttps://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/ImageCover/2022/9/22/md22600339689.jpgyCover Image