Violence and the Sacred
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Violence and the Sacred (La violence et le sacré) is a 1972 book by French anthropologist René Girard. Turning his interest towards the anthropological domain, Girard began to study anthropological literature and proposed his second great hypothesis: the victimization process, which is at the origin of archaic religion.
Since the mimetic rivalry that develops from the struggle for the possession of the objects is contagious, it leads to the threat of violence. Girard himself says, "If there is a normal order in societies, it must be the fruit of an anterior crisis."[1]
Norman O. Brown remarks that Girard's book, "looks into the Pandora's box opened by Bataille to frighten us back into orthodox religion; Pope John Paul II really liked it."[2]
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- ^ Quand ces choses commenceront p29
- ^ Brown, Norman O. (1991). Apocalypse and/or Metamorphosis. Berekley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. p. 192. ISBN 0-520-07298-7.
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