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Violence and the Sacred

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René Girard
translated by Patrick Gregory

$22.00 paperback
978-0-8018-2218-6 (26 ctn qty)
1979 352 pp.
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"His fascinating and ambitious book provides a fully developed theory of violence as the 'heart and secret soul' of the sacred. Girard's fertile, combative mind links myth to prophetic writing, primitive religions to classical tragedy."—Victor Brombert, Chronicle of Higher Education


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