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René Girard and Creative Reconciliation
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2014
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The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides effective practice and practice is the ground for compelling theory. Using a Girardian hermeneutic as a starting point, a new conceptual Gestalt emerges in these essays, one not fully integrated in a formal way but showing a clear understanding of some of the challenges and possibilities for dealing with the deep divisions, enmity, hatred, and other effects of violence. By situating discourse about reconciliation within the context of Girardian thought, it becomes clear that—like Peter who vowed he would never deny Jesus but ended up doing it three times—any of us is susceptible to the siren call of angry resentment and retaliation. It is with a profound awareness of the power of violence that the emergence of mimetic discourse around reconciliation takes on particular urgency.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-6900-1
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-6901-8
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
412
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
1 Mimetic Desire, Aphetic Mimesis, and Reconciliation as the Nexus of “Letting Go” and “Turning Around” No access
2 The Self and Other People No access
3 Dialogue No access
4 Blessing-Based Reconciliation in the Face of Violence No access
5 Towards a Theology of Friendship in the “Global Village” No access
6 Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities No access
7 The Creative Non-Violent Approach of Walter Wink No access
8 Improvising the Practice of Nonresistance as Creative Mimesis No access
9 René Girard and the Symbolism of Religious Sacrifice No access
10 Psychology, Hermeneutic Philosophy, and Girardian Thought No access
11 Rethinking Girardian Reconciliation No access
12 Seeding Reconciliation in a Theater of War No access
13 Changing Trajectory No access
14 There Is a Crack in Everything. . . . No access
15 Reconciliation as Resistance No access
16 Mimesis, Residential Schools, and Reconciliation No access
17 Bosnia’s Children Born of War No access
18 “We Forgive and Ask Forgiveness” No access
19 From Fracturing Resemblances to Restorative Differences No access
