Ren\u00e9 Girard offers the most comprehensive, boldest, and most controversial account of human motivation, culture and religion. This French-American thinker weaves literature, anthropology, philosophy and theology into a developing project with many convinced followers in all these areas, also many critics. His unique insights have found their way into boardrooms, counselling rooms, lecture halls and pulpits around the world.<\/p>\n

A number of Australian academics working on Girard have got together and founded the Australian Girard Seminar (AGS). It\u2019s first Conference, held in Sydney in January 2011, attracted approximately forty interested people from many walks of life\u2014not just academics by any means. Reading groups are underway in Eastern capitals (also one in a rural village called Tilba!). Annual gatherings, this website, and links to the wider Girardian world are the ways that we can help you get to know Girard, and be part of a real historical breakthrough in human understanding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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