A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: Rene by James Bernard Murphy PAPERBACK

A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: Rene Girard in Dialogue\nby James Bernard Murphy\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: James Bernard Murphy\nTitle: A Genealogy of Violence and Religion: Rene Girard in Dialogue\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Psychology\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press\nPublication year: 2018\nISBN-13: 9781845199289\nISBN-10: 1845199286\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nWhy are religious rituals, symbols, and rhetoric so full of images of blood, sacrifice, and death? Why does religious fervor so often lead to Holy War, Crusade, and Jihad? No wonder many people assume that religion tends to give rise to violence. But what if it were the other way around? What if violence actually gave rise to religion? So argued the French literary theorist and anthropo.