Bibliography of Literature on the Mimetic Theory vol. XLIV
by Dietmar Regensburger
We invite you to send books, articles and references dealing with René Girard and Mimetic Theory in digital formats via email or print copies to Girard-Documentation, c/o Dr. Dietmar Regensburger, University of Innsbruck, Karl-Rahner-Platz 1, A-6020 Innsbruck / Austria.
1) Books concerning the entire work of René Girard
Barahona, Angel. René Girard, de la ciencia a la fe. Madrid: Encuentro, 2014.
Bourdin, Jean-Marc. La rivalité des égaux: La théorie mimétique, un paradigme pour l’anthropologie politique. Thèse de doctorat de philosophie. Paris: Université Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis, 2016.
Chantre, Benoît. Les derniers jours de René Girard. Paris: Grasset, 2017.
Coulon, Pascal. René Girard, l’impensable violence. Paris: Germina, 2012.
Gonzáles Hernández, Domingo. René Girard, Maestro cristiano de la sospecha. Madrid: Fundación Emmanuel Mounier, 2016.
Grande, Per Bjørnar. Utviklingsoptimisme. Oslo: Vidarforlaget, 2015.
Haven, Cynthia L. “Everything Came to Me at Once”: The Intellectual Vision of René Girard. Belmont, N. C: Wiseblood Books, 2017.
Le désir de l’autre: René Girard et Michel Henry, ed. Benoît Chantre, and Thierry Berlanda. Paris: Petra, 2016.
Oort, Richard van. Shakespeare’s Big Men: Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.
2) Articles concerning the entire work of René Girard
Astell, Ann. “Violence, Mysticism, and René Girard.” Theological Studies 78/2 (2017): 389-411.
Bartlett, Anthony W. “After Sacrifice Ontology: The Shared Revelatory Dynamic of Heidegger and Girard.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 119-38.
Calasso, Roberto. The Last Superstition: René Girard Lecture, November 5th, 2014, Video, 87 min.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJZmLGYpByU
Carnevali, Barbara. “Gli uomini saranno dèi gli uni per gli altri. Sull’antropologia di René Girard.” Le parole e le cose, November 06, 2015.
Castellana, Riccardo. “Chi ha paura di René Girard? La teoria mimetica e la letteratura italiana.” Le parole e le cose, January 14, 2016.
Chantre, Benoit. “René Girard in France.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 23 (2016): 13-62.
Dadosky, John. “Healing and Transformation: Lonergan, Girard and Buddhism.” New Blackfriars (August 2017).
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. “Neither Dawkins nor Durkheim: On René Girard’s Theory of Religion.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 3-12: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. “René Girard: Desire, Violence and Religion.” Inference: International Review of Science 2/2 (2016).
Gans, Eric. “Introduction to ‘Toward a Triangular Aesthetics’.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 1-4.
Gans, Eric. “Toward a Triangular Aesthetics.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 5-22.
Gans, Eric. “The Secret of Mensonge romantique.” In Chronicles of Love and Resentment no. 507, February 13, 2016.
Gardner, Stephen. “René Girard: Christian Apocalypse of Modernity, or Modern Apocalypse of Christianity?” In Images of Europe, Past Present, Future, ed. Yolanda Espina, 1123-32. Porto: Universidade Católica Editora, 2014.
Giglioli, Daniele. “René Girard e la teoria letteraria.” Le parole e le cose, August 12, 2016.
Goldman, Peter. “Originary Iconoclasm: ‘The Logic of Sparagmos’.” Anthropoetics 20/2 (Spring 2015).
Grande, Per Bjørnar. “Begjærets natur.” Tidsskrift for psykisk helse 1 (2014): 45-53.
Grande, Per Bjørnar. “Det imitative begjær.” Tekstualitet: Tidsskrift for fagprosa og allmenn sakprosa (August 27, 2013).
Grande, Per Bjørnar. “Girard: From Idealism to Apocalyptic Visions.” In Images of Europe, Past Present, Future, ed. Yolanda Espina, 1113-22. Porto: Universidade Católica Editora, 2014.
Grande, Per Bjørnar. “Imitation, Myth and Violence, Today and in the Past.” In Proceedings: 2nd Pan-American Interdisciplinary Conference, February 24-26, 2016, Buenos Aires, 342-56. Kocani: European Scientific Institute, 2016.
Gutiérrez Lozano, Carlos. ”Democracia deliberativa y teoría mimética: Apuntes para un diálogo entre Habermas y Girard.” Efemérides Mexicana 22/64 (2004): 5-18.
Gutiérrez Lozano, Carlos. ”Libertad y violencia en René Girard.” Revista electrónica Reflexiones Marginales 22 (2014).
Gutiérrez Lozano, Carlos. ”Religión engendra violencia -¡Objeción! Fe y cultura en el pensamiento de René Girard.” In Las fronteras del diálogo fe y cultura, ed. Mendoza, C, 135-59. México: Universidad Iberoamericana, 2004.
Harmakaputra, Hans Abdiel. “Between Transcendence and Violence: Gianni Vattimo and René Girard on Violence in a Secular Age.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 23 (2016): 117-36.
Heinämäki, Elisa. “Durkheim, Bataille, and Girard on the Ambiguity of the Sacred: Reconsidering Saints and Demoniacs.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 832 (2015): 513-36.
Janicka, Iwona. “Queering Girard–De-Freuding Butler: A Theoretical Encounter between Judith Butler’s Gender Performativity and René Girard’s Mimetic Theory.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 22 (2015): 43-64.
Kallscheuer, Otto. “Girard and Religion in the Age of Secularism.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 111-38. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
King, Chelsea Jordan. “Girard Reclaimed: Finding Common Ground between Sarah Coakley and René Girard on Sacrifice.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 23 (2016): 63-74.
Lynch, Paul. “Rescuing Rhetoric: Kenneth Burke, René Girard, and Forms of Conversion.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 139-58.
Manning, Robert J. S. “Emmanuel Levinas and René Girard: Religious Prophets of Non-Violence.” Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 1/1 (May 2017): 22-38.
Márquez Muñoz, Jorge. “Ivan Illich and René Girard: The Dream of Modernity Ends.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 23 (2016): 155-86.
Ramelow, Anselm Tilman. “Sacrifice in Hegel and Girard.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 13-62. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Reineke, Martha. “Girard and the Feminist Critique of Religion: Intimate Mediation in Kristeva and Girard.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 163-78. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Sacks, Jonathan. “Violence and the Sacred (Tzav, Covenant & Conversation 5775 on Ethics).” The Times of Israel, March 25, 2015.
Sheth, Noel. “Girard and Hindu Sacrifice.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 323-38. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Tarditi, Claudio. “Manque D’être, Désir Et Liberté: Pour Une Comparaison Entre Jean-Paul Sartre Et René Girard.” Le Philosophoire 23/2 (2004): 240-51.
Tataru, Marian. “Consilience, Abduction, and Mimetic Theory: An Epistemological Inquiry into René Girard’s Interpretation of the Oedipus Myth.” Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 11 (May 2017): 39-56.
Wilmes, Andreas. “Portrait of René Girard as a Post-Hegelian: Masters, Slaves, and Monstrous Doubles.” Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 11 (May 2017): 57-85.
Wilmes, Andreas. “René Girard and Philosophy: An Interview with Paul Dumouchel.” Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence 1/1 (May 2017): 2-11.
3) Reviews about single works of René Girard
Birnbaum, Jean. “‘Sanglantes origines’, de René Girard: À l’épreuve du terrain. Le Monde, January 20, 2011.
Gallix, Andrew. “In Theory: Mimetic Desire.” The Guardian, February 8, 2010.
Rosman, Artur. “The Papacy Defeated the West. Review of ‘Battling to the End’, by René Girard.” Patheos, November 5, 2015.
Sternad, Christian. “Review of ‘Im Angesicht der Apokalypse: Clausewitz zu Ende denken’, by René Girard.” Journal Phänomenologie 44 (2016): 104-06.
4) Interviews with René Girard
Migliorini Robert. “Que valent nos valeurs? Interview with René Girard.” La Croix, December 13, 2002.
5) Books with references to René Girard
Cavanaugh, William T. Migrations of the Holy: God, State, and the Political Meaning of the Church. Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Pub. Co., 2011.
Giglioli, Daniele. Critica della vittima: Un esperimento con l’etica. Milano: Nottetempo, 2014.
Hajatpour, Reza. Sufismus und Theologie: Grenze und Grenzüberschreitung in der islamischen Glaubensdeutung. Welten der Philosophie. Freiburg: Verlag Karl Alber, 2017.
Krapfl, James. Revolution with a Human Face: Politics, Culture, and Community in Czechoslovakia, 1989-1992. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013.
Lehmann, Johannes Friedrich. Im Abgrund der Wut: Zur Kultur- und Literaturgeschichte des Zorns. Rombach-Wissenschaften Reihe Litterae. Freiburg i. Br.: Rombach Verlag, 2012.
The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding. Directed by Omer, Atalia, R. Scott Appleby, and David Little. Oxford University Press, 2015.
Zahnd, Brian. Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News. Colorado Springs, CO: Waterbrook, 2017.
Žižek, Slavoj. Less than Nothing: Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism. London: Verso, 2012.
6) Articles with references to René Girard
Assheuer, Thomas. “‘Die Macht des Heiligen’: Ende der Religion? Was für ein Irrtum!” Die Zeit, October 09, 2017.
Carr, Dom Elias. “Raymund Schwager, SJ, in Fourvière and Fribourg.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 22 (2015): 221-46.
Denis, Jean-Philippe. “L’horreur stratégique. #ParisAttacks.” The Conversation, November 17, 2015.
Dettloff, Dean. “Catholic Air Conditioning: Laudato Si’ and the Overcoming of Phenomenology.” The Heythrop Journal 58/6 (2017): 931–41.
Foer, Franklin. “Apocalypse Now: What’s Behind the Volatile Mood of Today’s American — and European — Voters.” The New York Times, February 13, 2017.
Gans, Eric. “The Aborted Gesture.” In Chronicles of Love and Resentment no. 565, November 11, 2017.
Gans, Eric. “Victimary ‘Humanism’.” In Chronicles of Love and Resentment no. 563, October 28, 2017.
Goldman, Peter. “John Milton on Ecclesiastical Free Markets and Weber’s Protestant Ethic.” In Anthropoetics 22/2 (Spring 2017).
Gutiérrez Lozano, Carlos. ”La verdad los hará libres: mentira, deseo y libertad.” In Sociedad, Ética y mentira, México, ed. F. Piñón y G. Martínez, 249-66. México: Ediciones hombre y mundo/UAM/Centro de estudios Antonio Gramsci, 2009.
Hetzel, Andreas. Wertschöpfung als kulturelle Praxis: Ein Beitrag Nietzsches zur Kulturphilosophie. Nietzsche-Studien: Internationales Jahrbuch für die Nietzsche-Forschung 44/1 (2015): 88-97.
Katz, Adam. “An Introduction to Disciplinarity.” Anthropoetics 20/2 (Spring 2015).
Komatsu, Shoko. “The Haunted Mansion and <Woman>: Otherworldly Apparitions in the Modern Cities of Japan.” In Anthropoetics 22/1 (Fall 2016).
Lohlker, Rüdiger. “Islam: Law and Violence (and Nonviolence).” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 413-26. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Markoe, Lauren. “Confronting the Roots of Violence: Interview with Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.” Religion News Service, October 29, 2015.
Matthews, Benjamin. “Victimary Thinking, Celebrity and the CCTV Building.” Anthropoetics 20/2 (Spring 2015).
Oppenheimer, Daniel. “Mutually Assured Resentment: Why Trumpism Is Global.” Washington Monthly (June/July/August 2017).
Rois, Robert. “Shared Guilt for the Ambush at Roncevaux.” Anthropoetics 20/2 (Spring 2015).
Ryusawa, Aya. “Mastering the Visualization of Heroic Narratives within Daimyō Families: ‘The Illustrated Scroll of ‘Shutendōji’ in the Edo period.” In Anthropoetics 22/1 (Fall 2016).
Sackeroff, Samuel. “The Ends of Deferral.” Anthropoetics 20/2 (Spring 2015).
Schneider, Matthew “Oscar Wilde on Learning Outcomes Assessment.” Anthropoetics 20/2 (Spring 2015).
Seibel, Andreas. “Humanisten, die zuschlagen können.” Die Welt, November 20, 2015.
Sejdini, Zekirija. “Wir sind keine Götter: Plädoyer für eine sachliche Diskussion über die Erscheinungsformen des politischen Islams.” Tiroler Tageszeitung, March 7, 2015.
Sloterdijk, Peter, and Morse, Erik. “Something in the Air.” Frieze Magazine, no. 127 (Nov-Dec 2009).
Stewart, Kieran. “Nietzsche’s Early Theory of Language in Light of Generative Anthropology.” In Anthropoetics 22/2 (Spring 2017).
Steward, Kieran. “Origins of the Sacred: A Conversation between Eric Gans and Mircea Eliade.” Anthropoetics 20/2 (Spring 2015).
Taylor, Matthew. “Scenes of Distress: Reflections on Francis Fukuyama’s ‘End of History’.” In Anthropoetics 22/2 (Spring 2017).
Thadden, Elisabeth von. “Schöne Ohnmacht. Daniele Giglioli legt zur Jahreswende eine kleine Kampfschrift vor: ‘Die Opferfalle’.” Die Zeit, January 13, 2016.
Weinglass, Simona. “Israelis on Facebook React Angrily to Paris Attacks — and to Each Other.” The Times of Israel, November 18, 2015.
7) Books applying the mimetic theory
Bandera, Cesareo. Mimésis conflictuelle: Fiction littéraire et violence chez Cervantès et Calderon, traducteur Alain Baquier. Paris: Petra, 2016.
Baquier, Alain. L’île de la Possession: Archipel Crozet, terres australes et antartiques. Paris: Petra, 2015.
Bartlett, Anthony W. Seven Stories: How to Study and Teach the Nonviolent Bible. Syracuse, NY: Hopetime Press, 2017.
Beck, Richard. Unclean: Meditations on Purity, Hospitality, and Morality. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011.
Bourdin, Jean-Marc. Duchamp révélé: L’art contemporain à l’épreuve de la théorie mimétique. Paris: Petra, 2016.
Bubbio, Paolo Diego. Sacrifice in the Post-Kantian Tradition: Perspectivism, Intersubjectivity, and Recognition. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2015.
Castro Rocha, Joao Cezar de. Cultures latino-américaines et poétiques de l’émulation: Littératures des faubourgs du monde ?, traduit par François Weigel. Paris: Petra, 2015.
Dizdar, Draško. Sheer Grace: Living the Mystery of God. New York: Paulist Press, 2008.
Doran, Robert M. The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions, Volume 1: Missions and Processions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: 2012.
Goodhart, Sandor. Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Gruenler, Curtis A. Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
Hien, François. Retour à Baby-Loup: Contribution à une désescalade. Paris: Petra, 2017.
Márquez Muñoz, Jorge. Sociedad, violencia y poder, tomo I: De las comunidades primitivas a la caída del imperio romano. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2011.
Márquez Muñoz, Jorge. Sociedad, violencia y poder, tomo II: De las religiones axiales a la modernidad. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2013.
Márquez Muñoz, Jorge, and Romero Gallardo, Michelle Vyoletta (ed.). Sociedad, violencia y poder, tomo III: Revoluciones. México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2014.
Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Richard Schenk and Wolfgang Palaver. East Lansing: MSU Press, 2017.
The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion, ed. Alison, James and Palaver, Wolfgang. New York: Palgrave, 2017.
Van Coillie, Geert, Anckaert, Luc, and Thoen, Paul. Geweld herdacht voorbij oorlog en vrede. Leuven/Den Haag: Acco, 2014.
8) Articles applying the mimetic theory
Alberg, Jeremiah L. “Mimesis as Scandal: Rousseau and Derrida.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 22 (2015): 31-42.
Alberg, Jeremiah. “Why Rousseau Cannot Laugh: Structuring Motif—‘Achever’.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 139-62. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Alison, James. “Girard and the Analogy of Desire.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 427-40. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Alison, James. “Traversing Hostility: The ‘sine qua non’ of any Christian Talk about Atonement.” In Mimesis and Atonement: René Girard and the Doctrine of Salvation, Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, ed. Michael Kirwan and Sheelah Treflé Hidden, 1-16. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Antonelli, Emanuele. “Little Red Riding Hood: Victimage in Folktales and Cinema—A Case Study.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 22 (2015): 107-32.
Arjakovsky, Antoine. “Orthodox Debates in the Twentieth Century on the Question of Atonement.” In Mimesis and Atonement: René Girard and the Doctrine of Salvation, Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, ed. Michael Kirwan and Sheelah Treflé Hidden, 33-46. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Astell, Ann. “‘The Hellenic’ Rationality of Interreligious Dialogue: René Girard, Simone Weil, and Pope Benedict XVI.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 279-300. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Avery, Vanessa. “Jewish Atonement and the Book of Jonah: From Sacrifice to Non-Violence.” In Mimesis and Atonement: René Girard and the Doctrine of Salvation, Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, ed. Michael Kirwan and Sheelah Treflé Hidden, 17-32. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Barber, Peter John. “The Role of the Androgyne in the Biblical Subversion of the Mytho-Sacrificial World: Exploring the Early Messianic Lineage as a Series of New Adams.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 22 (2015): 203-20.
Bartlett, Anthony. “Paul and Girard Agonistes: Against Theological Violence.” In Mimesis and Atonement: René Girard and the Doctrine of Salvation, Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, ed. Michael Kirwan and Sheelah Treflé Hidden, 71-94. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Casini, Federica. “Mensonge romantique et vérité chrétienne dans l’œuvre de Victor Hugo.” Scienze e Ricerche 26/1 (April 2016): 59-63.
Chia-Rousseau, Maud. “Lolita and Mimetic Desire.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 23 (2016): 137-54.
Chantre, Benoit. “The Messianic Moment: Bergson and Girard.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 87-110. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Collins, Brian. “Burning Desires, Burning Corpses: Girardian Reflections on Fire in Hinduism and Buddhism.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 303-22. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Cowdell, Scott. “Sport and the Sacred Victim: René Girard and the Death of Phillip Hughes.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 22 (2015): 133-40.
Dalton, Jacob and Rospatt, Alexander von. “The Roots of Violence Society and the Individual in Buddhism and Girard.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 339-66. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Daly, Robert J. “Girard and World Religions: The State of the Question.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 181-94. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Dennis, Ian. “‘More Skilled Practitioners of Wanting’: Buddhism and Romanticism in the Market World.” In Anthropoetics 22/1 (Fall 2016).
Ericksen, Adam. “Tawhid: The Oneness of God and the Desire for the Good.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 401-12. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Fallon, Breann. “Zero Dark Thirty (2012) and Girard: The Fortification and Veneration of American Civil Religion in Film.” Literature and Aesthetics 24/1 (June 2014), 29-46.
Finamore, Stephen. “Wright, Wrong and Wrath: Apocalypse in Paul and in Girard.” In Mimesis and Atonement: René Girard and the Doctrine of Salvation, Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, ed. Michael Kirwan and Sheelah Treflé Hidden, 47-70. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Finger, Evelyn. “Die Angst vor dem Kreuz. Zu Ostern feiern wir die Überwindung der Gewalt: Warum wollen wir die Opfer nicht sehen? Die Zeit, April 16, 2015.
Gans, Eric. “Some Victimary Reflections.” In Chronicles of Love and Resentment no. 560, September, 2017.
Gans, Eric. “The Jew as Scapegoat.” In Chronicles of Love and Resentment no. 530, January 7, 2017.
Girard, René. “Belonging.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 23 (2016): 1-12.
Girard, René. “Rupture and Literary Creation in Jean-Paul Sartre [1968].” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 22 (2015): 1-16.
Goodhart, Sandor. “Judaism and the Exodus from Archaic Religion: Reading René Girard among the World Religions.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 385-400. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Grande, Per Bjørnar. “Desire in ‘Madame Bovary’.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 23 (2016): 75-98.
Grande, Per Bjørnar. “Den hellige ånd og historieutviklingen.” Kirke og Kultur 4 (2015): 350-62.
Grande, Per Bjørnar. “Desire in ‘The Great Gatsby’.” Anthropoetics 21/1 (Fall 2015).
Grande, Per Bjørnar. “Gud hos Dag Solstand.” Kirke og Kultur 4 (/2016): 397-405.
Grazioli, Andrea and Di Pierro, Mattia. “The Contagion Principle Versus Rights: The Mob Justice Phenomenon as Anthropo-Poietic Struggle.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 23 (2016): 187-206.
Haw, Chris. “Human Evolution and the Single Victim Mechanism: Locating Girard’s Hominization Hypothesis through Literature Survey.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 191-216.
Hetzel, Andreas. “Das demokratische Begehren: Politische Leidenschaften in der Postdemokratie.” In Postdemokratie und die Verleugnung des Politischen, ed. Andreas Hetzel and Gerhard Unterthurner, 185-205. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2016.
Howles, Timothy. “The Undifferentiated Crowd: An Analysis of the Kierkegaardian ‘Single Individual’ in Light of Girardian Mimetic Theory.” The Heythrop Journal 58/5 (2017): 762–70.
Hren, Joshua. “Acquisitive Imitation and the Gift-Economy: Escaping Reciprocity in J. R. R. Tolkien’s ‘The Hobbit’.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 217-32.
Kirwan, Michael. “René Girard and World Religions.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 195-214. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Kirwan, Michael. “‘Strategies of Grace’: Mimesis as Conversion in Girard and in Theology. In Mimesis and Atonement: René Girard and the Doctrine of Salvation, Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, ed. Michael Kirwan and Sheelah Treflé Hidden, 115-34. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Knüsel, Christopher J. and Glencross, Bonnie. “Çatalhöyük, Archaeology, Violence.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 23-36.
Lawtoo, Nidesh. “Dueling to the End/Ending ‘The Duel’: Girard ‘avec’ Conrad.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 22 (2015): 153-84.
Lusvardi, Anthony R. “Girard and the ‘Sacrifice of the Mass’: Mimetic Theory and Eucharistic Theology.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 159-90.
Machuco Rosa, António. “Spencer-Brown, Peirce, Girard, and the Origin of Logic.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 22 (2015): 65-88.
McKenna, Andrew. “Girard and Derrida: Philosophy for Laughs.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 22 (2015): 17-30.
McKenna, Stephen. “A Mimetic Perspective on Trust.” In Living in an Age of Mistrust: An Interdisciplinary Study of Declining Trust and How to Get it Back, ed. Andrew I. Yeo and Matthew Green, 45-56. Oxford: Routledge, 2017.
Moosbrugger, Mathias. “The Future of (Post-)Modernity—Silver Linings or Heart of Darkness?: René Girard’s Apocalyptic Thinking Revisited.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 22 (2015): 89-106.
Morrow, Duncan. “Violence Unveiled: Understanding Christianity and Politics in Northern Ireland after René Girard’s Re-reading of Atonement.” In Mimesis and Atonement: René Girard and the Doctrine of Salvation, Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, ed. Michael Kirwan and Sheelah Treflé Hidden, 135-52. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.
Palaver, Wolfgang. “Gewalt, Religion, Staat: Eine Theologische Anthropologie des Friedens.” In Gesellschaft, Staat, Gewalt: Was uns zusammenhält, ed. Ursula Baatz, and Gudrun Biffl, 99-104. St. Pölten: NÖ Forschungs und Bildungsges.m.b.H (NFB), 2017.
Palaver, Wolfgang: “The Abrahamic Revolution.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 259-78. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Palaver, Wolfgang. “Violence and Religion: A Complex Relationship.” In Religion and Violence: Muslim and Christian Theological and Pedagogical Reflections, ed. Ednan Aslan and Marcia Hermansen, 41-54. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2017.
Palaver, Wolfgang. “War and Politics: Clausewitz and Schmitt in the Light of Girard’s Mimetic Theory.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 101-18.
Parrilla Martinez, Desiderio. “Mimesis, Ritual Sacrifice, and Ceremony of ‘Proskynesis’.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 24 (2017): 57-72.
Peters, Ted. “Religious Sacrifice, Social Scapegoating, and Self-Justification.” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 367-84. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Ranieri, John. “Reason and Revelation: An Important Distinction?” In Mimetic Theory and World Religions, ed. Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk, 63-86. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
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