Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness

Reflecting on Violence and Religion with Rene Girard

Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness
Wolfgang Palaver
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4 Feb 2021 UK
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9781108728225
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Studies into religion and violence often put religion first. Rene Girard started with violence in his book Violence and the Sacred and used the Durkheimian term ' sacred' as its correlate in his study of early religions. During the unfolding of his theory, he more and more distinguished the sacred from saintliness to address the break that the biblical revelation represented in comparison to early religions. This distinction between the sacred and saintliness resembles Henri Bergson' s complementing Emile Durkheim' s identification of the sacred and society with a dynamic religion that relies on individual mystics. Girard' s distinction also relates to the insights of thinkers like Jacques Maritain, Simone Weil, and Emmanuel Levinas. This element explores some of Girard' s main features of saintliness. Girard pleaded for the transformation of the sacred into holy, not their separation.

Great War, Religious Dimensions
Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion with Rene Girard

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ISBN-13: 9781108728225
Published: 4 Feb 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Weight: 91g
Pages: 75

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