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Author: René Girard
René Girard “The Evangelical Subversion of Myth” in Politics and Apocalypse, Robert Hamerton-Kelly ed. (MSU P: Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture, 2007)
In Jesus’ rebuke to the Pharisees we see how Hebrew and Christian Scriptures alike reveal the scapegoating violence of cultural origins that mythology disguises. Mechanisms of self-deception are uncovered in a way that implicates every reader.
Author: Henri Atlan
From Violence and Truth: On the Works of René Girard, Paul Dumouchel ed. (Stanford UP, 1988)
A critique of mimetic theory from the perspective of Jewish tradition: the universality of the surrogate victim mechanism does not entail the relation to Christian revelation alleged by Girard; the critique of sacrificial scapegoating in Torah and Talmud offers a corrective to Girard’s notion of “méconnaissance” (misrecognition of violent causality) in his interpretation of religious violence.
Author: Lucien Scubla
From Violence and Truth: On the Works of René Girard, Paul Dumouchel ed. (Stanford UP, 1988)
An internal critique of mimetic theory from within the logic of Girard’s ideas, this essay argues that Christianity is neither unique nor unequivocal in its critical reflection on sacrifice, and poses epistemological and anthropological challenges to Girard’s interpretation of his religious tradition. Further reproduction, use, or distribution of this material in any form or/and by any means, is prohibited without prior permission from Stanford University Press, www.sup.org
Author: James Alison
This programmatic lecture from August 2008 sets out a number of the areas where mimetic theory might make a difference in the discipline of Theology. These include a non-rivalistic account of God, enriched possibilities of scriptural hermeneutics, a self-critical account of institutionality, and a way of dissociating uniqueness from exclusivism.
Author: Robert Hamerton-Kelly
From a lecture given in March 2009 at Villa Medici in Rome. What we misleadingly call Paul's "conversion" is in his own words an "apocalypse," the disclosure or revelation in the cross of Christ of his own complicity in the violence of a mimetically constituted world.