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Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion with René Girard

By (author) Wolfgang Palaver

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Studies into religion and violence often put religion first. René Girard started with violence in his book Violence and the Sacred and used the Durkheimian term 'sacred' as its correlate in his study of early religions. During the unfolding of his theory, he more and more distinguished the sacred from saintliness to address the break that the biblical revelation represented in comparison to early religions. This distinction between the sacred and saintliness resembles Henri Bergson's complementing Emile Durkheim's identification of the sacred and society with a dynamic religion that relies on individual mystics. Girard's distinction also relates to the insights of thinkers like Jacques Maritain, Simone Weil, and Emmanuel Levinas. This element explores some of Girard's main features of saintliness. Girard pleaded for the transformation of the sacred into holy, not their separation.

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Publisher | Cambridge University Press
Published date | 4 Feb 2021
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 96
Dimensions | 176 x 126 x 6mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 90g
ISBN | 978-1-1087-2822-5
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BISAC | religion / general

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