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    Violence and the Sacred (French: La violence et le sacré) is a 1972 book about the sacred by the French critic René Girard, in which the author explores...
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    beliefs, doctrines, and sacred places. Religious violence, like all forms of violence, is a cultural process which is context-dependent and highly complex...
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    René Girard (category Stanford University Department of French and Italian faculty)
    La Violence et le sacré (1972; Violence and the Sacred, 1977) and Des choses cachées depuis la fondation du monde (1978; Things Hidden Since the Foundation...
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  • Deleuze and Guattari drew on The Accursed Share in Anti-Oedipus (1972). Bataille's ideas also influenced Girard's Violence and the Sacred (1972). The Accursed...
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  • his 1972 book Violence and the Sacred. Some examples of settings, groups, and eras where purity spirals have occurred: The Khmer Rouge The Cultural Revolution...
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  • cows are considered sacred to the Hindu majority. This is a list of cow vigilante violence in India. A number of incidents of violence have occurred. According...
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    Scapegoats at Work: Taking the Bull's-Eye Off Your Back (2003) Girard, René: Violence and the Sacred (1972) Girard, René: The Scapegoat (1986) Jasinski...
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    based on the thought and action of World War II French Resistance leader Charles de Gaulle, who would become the founding President of the Fifth French...
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  • James George. The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1942. Girard, Rene. Violence and the Sacred. Trans. Patrick...
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    by the National Rally and Renaissance. LR's candidate in the 2017 presidential election, former Prime Minister François Fillon, placed third in the first...
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    neurotic individuals. The critic René Girard wrote in Violence and the Sacred (1972) that, despite the rejection of Totem and Taboo by "contemporary...
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  • will invariably awaken desire... — René Girard, Violence and the Sacred: "From Mimetic Desire to the Monstrous Double", pp.156–157 Neuro-linguistic programming...
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    into the patron divinity of friendship, and because he is "friend", abhors all violence, even when sacred. Look up Mitra and मित्र in Wiktionary, the free...
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    attitudes towards violence and nonviolence over time. Both currently and historically, there have been four attitudes towards violence and war and four resulting...
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    (1984). Cenote of Sacrifices. The university of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-71097-6. Girard, René (1979). Violence and the Sacred. Translated by Gregory, P....
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    Fascism (category Italian words and phrases)
    Finchelstein, Federico (2010). Transatlantic Fascism: Ideology, Violence, and the Sacred in Argentina and Italy, 1919-1945. Duke University Press. doi:10.1515/9780822391555...
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    possesses the spontaneity, the violence, the ferocity, and also the enthusiasm and heroism of primitive beings, whom he further tends to resemble by the facility...
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    Biblical witness to the innocent victims and the God of victims demystifies and demythologizes this sacred social order' in which violence is grounded. Such...
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    Hopkins UP, 1988. Girard, René. Violence and the Sacred. London: Athlone, 1988. Homans, Peter. Jung in Context: Modernity and the Making of a Psychology. Chicago:...
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  • The Rally for the Republic (French: Rassemblement pour la République [ʁasɑ̃bləmɑ̃ puʁ la ʁepyblik]; RPR [ɛʁ pe ɛr]) was a Gaullist and conservative political...
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    Ancien régime (category French words and phrases)
    traditionalism and senescence. It conjured up a society so encrusted with anachronisms that only a shock of great violence could free the living organism...
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  • and festival, to apply some findings of ethology for the first time to mythology. René Girard's Violence and the Sacred appeared the same year. The book...
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    even the most benevolent in later practice, are founded on acts of violence, which are then forgotten. "Unity is always achieved by brutality: the joining...
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    University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01999-7. Hodder, Ian (2019-03-14). Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük. Cambridge...
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  • historical instances concerning the use of violence by Buddhists, including acts of aggression committed by Buddhists with political and socio-cultural motivations...
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    Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-05669-9. Girard, René (1977). Violence and the Sacred. Translated by Patrick Gregory. Johns Hopkins University Press...
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  • and made the Quran's teachings on violence and war a topic of vigorous debate, though it is clear that the Quran does not condone violence with no reason...
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  • change the name of the party to The Republicans, which was approved and came into effect on 30 May 2015. The UMP enjoyed an absolute majority in the National...
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    Death and Hunger". The Times. 12 January 1970. Saha, Santosh C. (2006). Perspectives on Contemporary Ethnic Conflict: Primal Violence Or the Politics...
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    Submission (novel) (category Novels set in the 2020s)
    in the academic journal Terrorism and Political Violence an extensive comparison of Houellebecq's novel with the non-fiction book and bestseller The Strange...
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