René Girard (1923-) was Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford Unviersity from 1981 until his retirement in 1995. Violence and t

"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the 'heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind

This book is primarily for researchers and students in the archaeology of the Ancient Near East. The volume results from intense interaction between archaeologi

How is symbolic violence related to the real acts of religious violence around the modern world? The authors of this book, first published in 1992, explore this