Violent Origins by René Girard, Walter Burkert

Violent Origins

René Girard, Walter Burkert

296 pages paperback 1987

3 editions

nonfiction sociology informative medium-paced
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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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