<?{"id":67,"date":"2011-03-30T10:06:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T10:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australiangirardseminar.org\/?page_id=67"},"modified":"2014-09-10T06:49:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T06:49:35","slug":"resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.australiangirardseminar.org\/?page_id=67","title":{"rendered":"Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are numerous resources available to those who wish to learn more about Ren\u00e9 Girard\u2019s<br \/>\nmimetic theory. The following are some recommendations:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Books &amp; Articles<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong>Works by Ren\u00e9 Girard<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Girard, Ren\u00e9, Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure, trans. Y. Freccero, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965.<\/p>\n<p>________. Violence and the Sacred, trans. P. Gregory, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.<\/p>\n<p>________. &#8220;To Double Business Bound&#8221;: Essays on Literature, Mimesis, and Anthropology, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.<\/p>\n<p>________. The Scapegoat, trans. Y. Freccero, (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986).<\/p>\n<p>________. Job, the Victim of his People, trans. Y. Freccero, London: Athlone Press, 1987a.<\/p>\n<p>________. with J-M. Oughourlian &amp; G. Lefort. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World, trans. S. Bann &amp; M. Metteer, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1987b.<\/p>\n<p>________. The Girard Reader, ed. J. G. Williams, New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>________. A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare, London: Gracewing &amp; New Malden, UK: Inigo Enterprises, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>________. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, trans. J. G. Williams, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2001.<\/p>\n<p>________. Oedipus unbound: selected writings on rivalry and desire, ed. Mark R. Anspach, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>________. with P. Antonello &amp; J. Cezar de Castro Rocha, Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture, London &amp; New York: Continuum, 2007.<\/p>\n<p>________. Battling to the End: Conversations with Beno\u00eet Chantre, trans. Mary Baker, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2010.<\/p>\n<p>NB: Some of the above-mentioned books by Girard appear on Imitatio\u2019s Online Library: http:\/\/www.imitatio.org\/online-library\/online-library-introduction.html. See Michael Kirwan\u2019s Discovering Girard and the COV&amp;R Bulletin for a more exhaustive list of sources by Girard and those writing on Girard\u2019s theory.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Works by Other Scholars<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Alison, James, Raising Abel: The Recovery of the Eschatological Imagination, New York, NY: Crossroad Publishing, 1996.<br \/>\n________. The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin through Easter Eyes, New York: CrossroadPublishing, 1998.<br \/>\n________. Knowing Jesus, new ed. London: SPCK, 1998.<\/p>\n<p>Bailie, Gil, Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads, Crossroad Publishing, New York, 1995.<\/p>\n<p>Cowdell, Scott, Abiding Faith: Christianity beyond certainty, anxiety and violence, Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming, Chris, \u201cMimesis and Violence \u2013 An Introduction to the Thought of Ren\u00e9 Girard,\u201d Australian Religion Studies Review 15, no. 1 (2002): pp. 57-72;<\/p>\n<p>________. Ren\u00e9 Girard: Violence and Mimesis, Cambridge, UK &amp; Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2004);<\/p>\n<p>Goodhart, Sandor, Sacrificing Commentary: Reading The End of Literature, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.<\/p>\n<p>Hamerton-Kelly, Robert G., Sacred Violence: Paul\u2019s Hermeneutic of the Cross, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>________. The Gospel and the Sacred: Poetics of Violence in Mark, Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 1994.<\/p>\n<p>Kirwan, Michael, Discovering Girard, London: Darton, Longman &amp; Todd, 2004. ________. Girard and Theology, London &amp; New York: T&amp;T Clark, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>McKenna, Andrew, Violence and difference: Girard, Derrida, and deconstruction, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Oughourlian, Jean-Michel, The Puppet of Desire: The Psychology of Hysteria, Possession, and Hypnosis. trans. E. Webb, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>________. The Genesis of Desire, trans. E. Webb, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State<br \/>\nUniversity Press; 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Palaver, Wolfgang &amp; Steinmair-P\u00f6sel, Petra (eds.), Passions in economy, politics, and the media : in discussion with Christian theology, Wien: Lit Verlag, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Schwager, Raymund, Must There Be Scapegoats? Violence and Redemption in the Bible, trans. M.L. Assad, Leominster, UK: Gracewing, &amp; New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company, 2000.<\/p>\n<p>________. Banished from Eden : original sin and evolutionary theory in the drama of<br \/>\nsalvation, trans. J. G. Williams, Leominster, Eng: Gracewing, 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Swartley, Willard M. (ed.), Violence Renounced : Ren\u00e9 Girard, Biblical Studies, and Peacemaking. Telford, PA: Pandora Press U.S., 2000.<\/p>\n<p>Williams, James G., The Bible, Violence, and the Sacred: Liberation from the Myth of Sanctioned Violence. San Francisco, CA: Harper, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>See also the COV&amp;R journal, Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, for articles on Girard\u2019s work in English:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msupress.msu.edu\/journals\/cont\/\">http:\/\/msupress.msu.edu\/journals\/cont\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Talks and Interviews with Ren\u00e9 Girard<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cGenesis of Mimetic Theory\u201d and other videos (including Girard on Charles Darwin), Accessible at: http:\/\/www.imitatio.org\/mimetic-theory\/video-audio-selections.html<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShakespeare on Passions: Keynote Speech at the COV&amp;R Conference 2003 in Innsbruck, Austria\u201d and \u201cViolence, Victims and Christianity: The D\u2019Arcy Lecture\u201d. 5 Nov 1997. University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Accessible at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uibk.ac.at\/theol\/cover\/girard\/videos.html\">http:\/\/www.uibk.ac.at\/theol\/cover\/girard\/videos.html<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uibk.ac.at\/theol\/cover\/girard_oxford_video.html\">http:\/\/www.uibk.ac.at\/theol\/cover\/girard_oxford_video.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yJ0v0TESK4I\">Girard interview On Charles Darwin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BNkSBy5wWDk\">Interview: Insights with Rene Girard<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are numerous resources available to those who wish to learn more about Ren\u00e9 Girard\u2019s mimetic theory. The following are some recommendations: Books &amp; Articles Works by Ren\u00e9 Girard Girard, Ren\u00e9, Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure, trans. Y. Freccero, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1965. ________. 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