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Imitatio is developing, collecting and providing access to educational materials that can introduce mimetic theory to a newcomer or inspire an experienced scholar. Our Video Library provides quick takes on certain issues or longer interviews with key thinkers. Below are several resources to help provide an entry point or deeper reading.
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Gateway to Mimetic Theory
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Ongoing Scholarship
Bibliography of Literature on the Mimetic Theory of René Girard
Regularly updated bibliography of literature dealing with the Mimetic Theory of René Girard.
Website: www.uibk.ac.at/theol/cover/girard/mimetic_theory.html
Contagion: Journal on Violence, Mimesis & Culture is the journal of the COLLOQUIUM ON VIOLENCE AND RELIGION, an international association of scholars dedicated to the exploration, criticism, and development of René Girard‘s mimetic model of the relationship between violence and religion in the genesis and maintenance of culture.
Contagion Archives
Anthropoetics: Journal of Generative Anthropology
Generative Anthropology (GA) seeks to transcend the impasse between the humanities, imprisoned in the "always already" of our cultural systems, and the empirical social sciences, which cannot model the paradoxical generativity of these systems. The originary hypothesis provides the basis for rethinking every aspect of the human, from language to art, from religion to political organization.
Anthropoetics is dedicated to this rethinking both for its intrinsic importance and as a framework for literary and cultural analysis. The editors ofAnthropoetics hope to stimulate the continuing interest in GA and to encourage productive dialogue between the humanities and the human sciences.
Anthrpoetics Journal
Chronicles of Love & Resentment
Dutch Study Group
For almost 25 years, the Dutch Study Group has fostered dialog and research on Mimetic Theory in Amsterdam and across the Netherlands.
Click here to view the Dutch Study Group site.
Girardian Reflections on the Lectionary: Understanding the Bible Anew Through the Mimetic Theory of René Girard
- The Body of Abel found by Adam and Eve -- William Blake
René Girard, now a professor Emeritus at Stanford University, has elaborated what he refers to as "mimetic theory," but which is also becoming known as an "anthropology of the cross." The hope with these lectionary reflections is to illustrate the significance of this anthropology as a new key to interpreting the Gospel.