Bibliography of Literature on the Mimetic Theory vol. XLVI
by Dietmar Regensburger
published in: Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion vol. 60 (May 2019)
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.
The Bibliography of Literature on the Mimetic Theory (Vol. I–XLIV) is available online.
1) Books concerning the entire work of René Girard
Cayley, David. The Ideas of René Girard: An Anthropology of Religion and Violence. Toronto: David Cayley, 2019.
Cowdell, Scott. René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.
Desmond, John F. Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide. Washington, D.C: The Catholic University of America Press, 2019.
Ely, Peter B. Adam and Eve in Scripture, Theology, and Literature: Sin, Compassion, and Forgiveness. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2018.
Hidalgo, Oliver. Politische Theologie: Beiträge zum untrennbaren Zusammenhang zwischen Religion und Politik. Wiesbaden: Springer, 2018.
Hodder, Ian, ed. Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Oort, Richard van. Shakespeare’s Big Men: Tragedy and the Problem of Resentment. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2016.
Schwager, Raymund. Brauchen wir einen Sündenbock?: Gewalt und Erlösung in den biblischen Schriften. Gesammelte Schriften 2. Freiburg Basel Wien: Herder, 2016.
2) Articles concerning the entire work of René Girard
Alison, James. “Stretching Girard’s Hypothesis: Road Marks for a Long-Term Perspective.” In Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, edited by Ian Hodder, 188–208. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Antonello, Pierpaolo, and Alessandra Diazzi. “Introduction: Intersubjectivity, Desire, and Mimetic Theory: René Girard and Psychoanalysis.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 1–8.
Assheuer, Thomas. “René Girard: Die Politik der starken Männer.” Die Zeit, no. 06 (January 31, 2019).
Babaei, Habibollah. “Spiritual Love and Sacred Suffering: Mimetic Theory from Shī‘ah Perspective.” In Mimetic Theory and Islam: ‘The Wound Where Light Enters’, edited by Michael Kirwan and Ahmad Achtar, 103–15. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Bandera, Cesáreo, and Adam Ericksen. “René Girard, Friendship, and Battling to the End: A Conversation with Cesáreo Bandera.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 195–208.
Bolin, John. “‘This Is Not a Parable’: Transformations of the Prodigal Son in Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and Coetzee.” Studies in the Novel 50, no. 2 (July 21, 2018): 233–54.
Breitenfellner, Kirstin. “Vom Scheiterhaufen zum Shitstorm.” Falter, no. 13 (March 26, 2019): 28–30.
Clare, Lee, Oliver Dietrich, Julia Gresky, Jens Notroff, Joris Peters, and Nadja Pöllath. “Ritual Practices and Conflict Mitigation at Early Neolithic Körtik Tepe and Göbekli Tepe, Upper Mesopotamia: A Mimetic Theoretical Approach.” In Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, edited by Ian Hodder, 96–128. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Darcy, Fr Michael. “Personalism as Interpersonalism: John Paul II and René Girard.” Quaestiones Disputatae 9, no. 2 (March 26, 2019): 126–48.
Diazzi, Alessandra. “Notes on Elvio Fachinelli and René Girard: The Psychoanalysis of Dissent Meets Mimetic Theory.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 109–22.
Doulgeridis, Dimitris. “Ο Ζιράρ μέσα από τον Ζιράρ [Girard through Girard].” The Books’ Journal (Greece), no. 61 (December 2015): 26–28.
Frankfurter, David. “The Study of Evil and Violence Without Girard.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45, no. 3–4 (2016): 17–21.
Frost, Kathryn M. “Exploring Girard’s Concerns about Human Proximity: Attachment and Mimetic Theory in Conversation.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 47–64.
Gans, Eric. “In the Beginning Was the Word: GA as a Religious Anthropology – Part 2.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 591 (July 21, 2018).
———. “In the Beginning Was the Word: GA as a Religious Anthropology – Part I.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 590 (July 14, 2018).
———. “Originary Ontology.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 592 (August 4, 2018).
———. “Paradox.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 580 (March 24, 2018).
———. “Religion, Philosophy, Anthropology.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 575 (February 10, 2018).
———. “The Centre.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 579 (March 17, 2018).
———. “Toward a Globalist-Victimary Unified Field Theory: Part III – The International Scene.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 601 (December 1, 2018).
Goodhart, Sandor. “Criticism, Critique, and Crisis in Assessing the Work of René Girard.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45, no. 3–4 (October 2016): 6–15.
Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich. “Wenn sich alle mit allen vergleichen, schmerzt das Ergebnis viele: René Girard, der ‘Prophet des Neids’, ist ein Denker auf der Höhe der neuen sozialen Dynamiken.” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, January 12, 2019.
Harrison, Robert Pogue. “The Prophet of Envy.” New York Review of Books 65, no. 20 (December 20, 2018): 62–64.
Hodder, Ian. “Religion as a Factor in the Development of Settled Life.” In Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, edited by Ian Hodder, 235–48. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
———. “Setting the Archaeological Scene.” In Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, edited by Ian Hodder, 3–27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Howland, Jacob. “Plato’s Apology as Tragedy.” The Review of Politics 70, no. 4 (2008): 519–46.
Janicka, Iwona. “A New Way to Suffer: Girard, Rancière, and Political Subjectification.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 161–78.
Jerryson, Michael. “Introduction: René Girard’s Legacy.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45, no. 3–4 (2016): 3–5.
Johnsen, William A. “Introduction to the Thought of René Girard.” In Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, edited by Ian Hodder, 28–38. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. “On Girard: Mimesis and Cosmic War.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45, no. 3–4 (2016): 59–65.
Kirwan, Michael, and Ahmad Achtar. “The Wound Where Light Enters: Mimetic Theory and Islam.” In Mimetic Theory and Islam: ‘The Wound Where Light Enters’, edited by Michael Kirwan and Ahmad Achtar, 3–27. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Kitts, Margo. “Mimetic Theory, Sacrifice, and The Iliad?” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45, no. 3–4 (2016): 46–57.
Klawans, Jonathan. “Something Bigger than Girard.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45, no. 3–4 (2016): 23–27.
Lee, Kan Pyo. “모세적 구별과 희생양 : 얀 아스만(Jan Assmann)의 종교사학적 유일신교 연구와 르네 지라르(Rene Girard)의 희생양 비판에 관련하여 [Google transl.: Mosaic distinction and scapegoat: Jan Assmann’s relativistic monotheism study and Rene Girard’s scapegoat criticism].” 선교와 신학 [Mission and Theology] 45 (June 2018): 235–61.
Mauldin, Joshua. “Episode 1: Religion & Violence-with Wolfgang Palaver.” Audio. Theology Matters. Princeton, New Jersey: Center of Theological Inquiry, January 31, 2019, 31 minutes.
Oort, Richard van. “Sad Stories of the Death of Kings.” Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology 24, no. 1 (Fall 2018).
Palaver, Wolfgang. “René Girard (1999), ‘Ich sah den Satan vom Himmel fallen wie einen Blitz. Eine kritische Apologie des Christentums.’” In Religionsphilosophie und Religionskritik. Ein Handbuch, edited by Michael Kühnlein, 819–30. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft 2140. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2018.
Parrilla Martínez, Desiderio. “Teoría Mimética y Teología En La Obra de René Girard.” Carthaginensia 32, no. 61 (2018): 99–116.
Reineke, Martha J. “The Worm in the Pudding Cup: Violence, Disgust, and Mimetic Theory.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 45, no. 3–4 (2016): 34–46.
Renger, Almut-Barbara. “„Imite-moi et ne m’imite pas“: Das „mimetische Begehren“ als Ursprung des krisenhaften Verlaufs der Meister-Schüler-Beziehung nach René Girard.” Paragrana 23, no. 2 (2014): 48–62.
Ruiz Lozano, Pablo. “René Girard: Una Original Respuesta Al Problema Del Universale Concretum.” Universitas Philosophica 35, no. 71 (2018): 175–200.
Sadeqi, Muhammad Husain, and Habibollah Babaei Babaei. “A Critical Assessment of the Relationship between Imitation and Violence in Rene Girard’s View.” Pizhūhish/Hā-Yi Falsafī- Kalāmī 20, no. 77 (November 1, 2018): 219–42.
Scheffler, Thomas. “Islam and Islamism in the Mirror of Girard’s Mimetic Theory.” In Mimetic Theory and Islam: ‘The Wound Where Light Enters’, edited by Michael Kirwan and Ahmad Achtar, 129–40. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Sener, Oemer. “The Philosophy of Dialogic Engagement: Two Muslim Dialogue Thinkers Vis-à-Vis Mimetic Theory.” In Mimetic Theory and Islam: ‘The Wound Where Light Enters’, edited by Michael Kirwan and Ahmad Achtar, 117–26. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Spens, Christiana. “Towards a Theory of Scapegoating, Catharsis and Narrative Closure.” In The Portrayal and Punishment of Terrorists in Western Media: Playing the Villain, edited by Christiana Spens, 37–64. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Strand, Mattias. “René Girard and the Mimetic Nature of Eating Disorders.” Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 42, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 552–83.
Szakolczai, Arpad. “Gabriel Tarde and René Girard: Imitation and the Foundations of Social Life.” In From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences, edited by Arpad Szakolczai and Bjørn Thomassen, 44–64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Thomas, Konrad. “René Girard: Ein anderes Verständnis von Gewalt.” In Kultur: Theorien der Gegenwart, edited by Stephan Moebius and Dirk Quadflieg, 425–38. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2011./p>
Toufic El-Khoury. “René Girard, Don Quichotte et La Comédie.” Carnets 12 (January 19, 2018).
Whiteley, Giles. “‘Inverted Rites’: Reading Girard Reading Pater Reading Shakespeare.” Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology 23, no. 1 (Fall 2017).
3) Reviews about single works of René Girard and Mimetic Theory
Aeschliman, M. D. “Mimicry, Mania, and Memory: René Girard Remembered.” National Review (blog), October 21, 2018. https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/book-review-evolution-of-desire-rene-girard-remembered/.
Benthall, Jonathan. “Godfather of Like: The Life of René Girard, an Influential and Comprehensive Thinker.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 6024 (September 14, 2018): 8–9. https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/godfather-of-like/.
Doulgeridis, Dimitris. “Η τελευταία επιθυμία [The last desire. Review of ‘Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard’, by Cynthia L. Haven ].” TA NEA (Greece), April 20, 2019. tanea.gr.
Dunn, George A. “‘Mimetic Theory and World Religions’, Edited by Wolfgang Palaver and Richard Schenk (Review).” Religious Studies Review 44, no. 2 (2018): 208–208. https://doi.org/10.1111/rsr.13425.
Herda, John. “‘Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard’, by Cynthia L. Haven (Review).” Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature 72, no. 2 (2018): 326–27. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/715641.
Williams, Ryan J. “‘Does Religion Cause Violence?: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World’, Edited by Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming, Joel Hodge, and Carly Osborn (Review).” Modern Theology, February 27, 2019, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12485.
Wilson, James Matthew. “The Last Structuralist.” Claremont Review of Books, June 13, 2018. https://www.claremont.org/crb/basicpage/the-last-structuralist/.
4) Interviews with René Girard
Doulgeridis, Dimitris. “Ρενέ Ζιράρ: Ο Δαρβίνος των ανθρωπιστικών επιστημών [René Girard: The Darwin of Human Sciences].” The Athens Review of Books (Greece), no. 03 (January 2010): 42–46.
Girard, René, Benoît Chantre, and Michel Crépu. “Religions, rites, violence.” Revue des Deux Mondes, September 2005, 117–26.
Girard, René, and Robert Pogue Harrison. “Warum kämpfen wir? Und wie können wir aufhören?” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 9, 2019.
ImitatioVideo. René Girard Explains Mimetic Desire. YouTube: ORDER Production, December 17, 2018, 2 minutes.
5) Books with references to René Girard
Anger, Suzy, ed. Knowing the Past: Victorian Literature and Culture. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
Armstrong, Paul B. Play and the Politics of Reading: The Social Uses of Modernist Form. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Balogh, László Levente, Miklós Takács, and Tamás Valastyán. Áldozat-Narratívák. Budapest: Kijárat Kiadó, 2019.
Banerjee, Mukulika. The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition & Memory in the North West Frontier. World Anthropology. Oxford: James Currey, 2000.
Bilbro, Jeffrey. Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry’s Sustainable Forms. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2019.
Breitenfellner, Kirstin. Wie können wir über Opfer reden? Passagen Thema. Wien: Passagen, 2018.
Brooker, Jewel Spears. T. S. Eliot’s Dialectical Imagination. Hopkins Studies in Modernism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Buchholz, Paul. Private Anarchy: Impossible Community and the Outsider’s Monologue in German Experimental Fiction. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Burridge, Richard A., and Jonathan Sacks. Confronting Religious Violence: A Counternarrative. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2018.
Campbell, Peter. Military Realism: The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the U.S. Army. University of Missouri Press, 2019.
Cantor, Paul A. Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream: Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2019.
Cole, Lucinda. Imperfect Creatures: Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016.
Collins, Michael J. The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800-1865. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. https://muse.jhu.edu/book/48516
Cruz, Daniel Shank. Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019.
Dahl, Espen. The Problem of Job and the Problem of Evil. Elements in Religion and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Desmond, Marilynn. Ovid’s Art and the Wife of Bath: The Ethics of Erotic Violence. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Eddy, Beth. The Rites of Identity: The Religious Naturalism and Cultural Criticism of Kenneth Burke and Ralph Ellison. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Eide, Marian. Terrible Beauty: The Violent Aesthetic and Twentieth-Century Literature. Cultural Frames, Framing Culture. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Esch, Sophie. Modernity at Gunpoint: Firearms, Politics, and Culture in Mexico and Central America. Illuminations: Cultural Formations of the Americas Series. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018.
Gebauer, Gunter, and Sven Rücker. Vom Sog der Massen und der neuen Macht der Einzelnen. München: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2019.
Gotman, Kélina. Choreomania: Dance and Disorder. Oxford Studies in Dance Theory. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Green, Roger K. A Transatlantic Political Theology of Psychedelic Aesthetics: Enchanted Citizens. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Hagedorn, John. The Insane Chicago Way: The Daring Plan by Chicago Gangs to Create a Spanish Mafia. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2015.
Hajatpour, Reza. Sufismus und Theologie. Grenze und Grenzüberschreitung in der islamischen Glaubensdeutung. Welten der Philosophie 17. Freiburg i. Br.: Verlag Karl Alber, 2017.
Hauerwas, Stanley. Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics, and Life. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2013.
Heim, S. Mark. Crucified Wisdom: Theological Reflection on Christ and the Bodhisattva. Comparative Theology: Thinking across Traditions. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019.
Herrmann, Rachel B., ed. To Feast on Us as Their Prey: Cannibalism and the Early Modern Atlantic. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2019.
Irish, Bradley J. Emotion in the Tudor Court: Literature, History, and Early Modern Feeling. Rethinking the Early Modern. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Jakes, Kelly. Strains of Dissent: Popular Music and Everyday Resistance in WWII France, 1940 – 1945. Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2019.
Kevorkian, Martin. Color Monitors: The Black Face of Technology in America. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Kieser, Hans-Lukas. Talaat Pasha: Father of Modern Turkey, Architect of Genocide. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Kitts, Margo. Elements of Ritual and Violence. Elements in Religion and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Kühnlein, Michael. Religionsphilosophie und Religionskritik: Ein Handbuch. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft 2140. Berlin: Suhrkamp, 2018.
LaCapra, Dominick. History in Transit: Experience, Identity, Critical Theory. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.
Lande, Joel B. Persistence of Folly: On the Origins of German Dramatic Literature. Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought. Ithaca: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2018.
Latham, Sean. Am I a Snob? Modernism and the Novel. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Lavery, Grace E. Quaint, Exquisite: Victorian Aesthetics and the Idea of Japan. Princeton University Press, 2019.
Lyons, John D. Tragedy and the Return of the Dead. Rethinking the Early Modern. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2018.
Mann, Annika. Reading Contagion: The Hazards of Reading in the Age of Print. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2018.
Meaney, Marie Cabaud. Brücken zum Übernatürlichen: Simone Weil über das Böse, den Krieg und die Religion. Aachen: Bernardus-Verlag, 2018.
Meir, Ephraim. Interreligious Theology: Its Value and Mooring in Modern Jewish Philosophy. Berlin Boston, Mass. Jerusalem: De Gruyter Oldenbourg Magnes, 2015.
Melendez, Priscilla. The Politics of Farce in Contemporary Spanish American Theatre. North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures 282. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018.
Mihailovic, Alexandar. The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2018.
Miller, David Lee. Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father’s Witness. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003.
Miller, Jordan E. Resisting Theology, Furious Hope: Secular Political Theology and Social Movements. Radical Theologies and Philosophies. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Mitchell, Mark T. The Limits of Liberalism: Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018.
Moore, Rebecca. Beyond Brainwashing: Perspectives on Cultic Violence. Elements in Religion and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Mormino, Gianfranco. Per una teoria dell’imitazione. Minima. Milano: Raffaello Cortina editore, 2016.
Oakley, Francis. From the Cast-Iron Shore: In Lifelong Pursuit of Liberal Learning. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018.
Patočka, Jan. The Natural World as a Philosophical Problem. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Recht, Laerke. Human Sacrifice: Archaeological Perspectives from Around the World. Elements in Religion and Violence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Rose, Marika. A Theology of Failure: Žižek against Christian Innocence. Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2019.
Rushworth, Jennifer. Discourses of Mourning in Dante, Petrarch, and Proust. Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Saffar, Ruth El. Distance and Control in Don Quixote: A Study in Narrative Technique. The University of North Carolina Press, 2017.
Samuels, Maurice. The Spectacular Past: Popular History and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century France. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.
Santana, Analola. Freak Performances: Dissidence in Latin American Theater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.
Schwager, Raymund. Beiträge zur Schöpfungslehre, Erbsündenlehre und zur Pneumatologie. Gesammelte Schriften 7. Freiburg Basel Wien: Herder, 2018.
———. Der wunderbare Tausch: Zur Geschichte und Deutung der Erlösungslehre. Gesammelte Schriften 3. Freiburg im Breisgau Basel Wien: Herder, 2015.
———. Dogma und dramatische Geschichte: Christologie im Kontext von Judentum, Islam und moderner Marktkultur. Gesammelte Schriften 5. Freiburg Basel Wien: Herder, 2014.
———. Frühe Hauptwerke. Gesammelte Schriften 1. Freiburg Basel Wien: Herder, 2016.
———. Kirchliche, politische und theologische Zeitgenossenschaft. Gesammelte Schriften 8. Freiburg Basel Wien: Herder, 2017.
Serrano, Carmen A. Gothic Imagination in Latin American Fiction and Film. University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
Sharpe, Andrew N. Foucault’s Monsters and the Challenge of Law. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge, 2010.
Sidel, John Thayer. Riots, Pogroms, Jihad: Religious Violence in Indonesia. Ithaca, N.Y: Cornell University Press, 2006.
Smith, Justin E. H. Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason. Princeton University Press, 2019.
Streete, Adrian. Protestantism and Drama in Early Modern England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Stuckey, Mary E. Political Vocabularies: FDR, the Clergy Letters, and the Elements of Political Argument. Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2018.
Sugg, Richard. Murder after Death: Literature and Anatomy in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.
Test, Edward McLean. Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature. Early Modern Cultural Studies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2019.
Vaidyanathan, Brandon. Mercenaries and Missionaries: Capitalism and Catholicism in the Global South. Cornell University Press, 2019.
Wallace, Mark I. When God Was a Bird: Christianity, Animism, and the Re-Enchantment of the World. Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2019.
Wolin, Richard. The Seduction of Unreason: The Intellectual Romance with Fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism. 2nd edition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019.
Wood, David. Reoccupy Earth: Notes toward an Other Beginning. Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology. New York, NY: Fordham University Press, 2019.
Wright, Daniel. Bad Logic: Reasoning about Desire in the Victorian Novel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
6) Articles with references to René Girard
Abrahamsson, Christian. Topoi/Graphein: Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought. Cultural Geographies + Rewriting the Earth. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Ahn, Juhn Young. “Unfinished Business? Transgression and Moral Agency in Park Chan-Wook’s Vengeance Trilogy.” In Transgression in Korea: Beyond Resistance and Control, edited by Juhn Young Ahn, 215–34. Perspectives on Contemporary Korea. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018.
Ang, Sze Wei. “The Politics of Victimization and the Model Minority.” CR: The New Centennial Review 11, no. 3 (2011): 119–39.
rmstrong, Paul B. “Henry James and Neuroscience: Cognitive Universals and Cultural Differences.” The Henry James Review 39, no. 2 (May 19, 2018): 133–51.
Barron, Robert. “The Internet and Satan’s Game.” Word on Fire (blog), January 22, 2019.
Béres Rogers, Kathleen. “Revolutiana and the Sublime in George Gleig’s Subaltern, Lord Byron’s Siege of Corinth, and Joanna Baillie’s Count Basil.” In Creating Romantic Obsession: Scorpions in the Mind, edited by Kathleen Béres Rogers, 119–48. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Bertonneau, Thomas F. “Two Eccentric Theorists of the Origin of Language: Oswald Spengler and William Olaf Stapledon.” Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology 24, no. 2 (Spring 2019).
Butterworth, Emily. “Scandal and Narrative in the Heptaméron.” French Studies 72, no. 3 (June 2, 2018): 350–63.
Cervantes, Nadia. “La estética de lo sagrado: Historia, performance y ritual en la Crónica mexicana de Hernando Alvarado Tezozómoc.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 52, no. 1 (May 5, 2018): 123–45.
Dennis, Ian. “Human Beauty and Reciprocity in the Market World: A Preliminary Inquiry.” Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology 24, no. 2 (Spring 2019).
Dietrich, Martha-Cecilia. “Pursuing the Perpetual Conflict: Ethnographic Reflections on the Persistent Role of the ‘Terrorist Threat’ in Contemporary Peru.” History & Memory 31, no. 1 (March 19, 2019): 59–86.
Douzal, Vincent. “Tracing the Origins of Western Disconnection from Nature, to Envision a Change.” In Coviability of Social and Ecological Systems: Reconnecting Mankind to the Biosphere in an Era of Global Change: Vol.1 : The Foundations of a New Paradigm, edited by Olivier Barrière, Mohamed Behnassi, Gilbert David, Vincent Douzal, Mireille Fargette, Thérèse Libourel, Maud Loireau, et al., 611–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Flynn, Meghanne, and Sarah Hardstaff. “‘Trust Me’: Volatile Markets in Twilight and The Hunger Games.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19, no. 1 (2019): 205–28.
Fusini, Letizia. “From Politics to Poetics: An Exploratory Study of Gao Xingjian’s Tragic Aesthetics in Escape.” Modern Drama 61, no. 4 (December 7, 2018): 567–84.
Gabriel, Kay. “Utopia and Uneven Space in Wole Soyinka’s The Bacchae of Euripides.” Arethusa 51, no. 2 (August 10, 2018): 163–88.
Gans, Eric. “A Heroine for Our Time.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 612 (March 9, 2019).
———. “Anthropological Ecumenism.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 581 (March 31, 2018).
———. “Generative Anthropology and Social Science.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 573 (January 20, 2018).
———. “Generative Theology.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 585 (May 19, 2018).
———. “Language, God, and Metaphysics.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 584 (May 5, 2018).
———. “Left and Right.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 614 (April 6, 2019).
———. “More Thoughts on Liberalism.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 583 (April 28, 2018).
———. “On Rereading the Chronicles – A Birthday Message.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 593 (August 18, 2018).
———. “Poets, Intellectuals, and Generative Anthropologists.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 613 (March 16, 2019).
———. “Reflections on ‘The Linguistic Turn’, Part 1: Metaphysical Closure.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 617 (April 27, 2019).
———. “The Esthetic in History.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 578 (March 10, 2018).
———. “The Future of Liberalism.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 582 (April 14, 2018).
———. “The Last Shall Be the First: Two Reflections.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 571 (January 6, 2018).
———. “The Little Bang.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 589 (June 30, 2018).
———. “The Originary Performative.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 570 (December 30, 2017).
———. “Three Modes of Faith.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 587 (June 9, 2018).
———. “UFT 7: Coda – The Two Phases of the Victimocracy.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 605 (December 29, 2018).
———. “UFT VI – Concluding Unscientific Postscript (with Apologies to SK).” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 604 (December 22, 2018).
———. “Vale of Tears: Religion in the Modern Age.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 566 (November 25, 2017).
———. “Victimary Fundamentalism.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 588 (June 16, 2018).
Garroway, Kristine. “2 Kings 6:24–30: A Case of Unintentional Elimination Killing.” Journal of Biblical Literature 137, no. 1 (April 17, 2018): 53–70.
Grzegorzewska, Małgorzata. “‘Blood Sprinkled or Blood Spilt:’ The History of Richard II Revisited in the Contemporary Theatre.” In Shakespeare in Europe: History and Memory, edited by Agnieszka Romanowska and Marta Gibińska, 303–12. Jagiellonian University Press, 2008.
Guggenberger, Wilhelm. “Muslim Brotherhood, Social Justice and Resentment.” In Mimetic Theory and Islam: ‘The Wound Where Light Enters’, edited by Michael Kirwan and Ahmad Achtar, 149–61. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Hampton, Alexander J. B. “Transcendence and Immanence: Deciphering Their Relation through the Transcendentals in Aquinas and Kant.” Toronto Journal of Theology 34, no. 2 (2018): 187–98.
Hartmann, Anna-Maria. “An Undemocratic Turn?” The Cambridge Quarterly 47, no. 3 (September 1, 2018): 272–79.
Harvie, Timothy. “Eschatological Communion: Human and Nonhuman Animals in Light of Evolution.” Toronto Journal of Theology 34, no. 1 (July 3, 2018): 47–62.
Henderson, Ian H. “A ‘Very’ Self-Conscious Jesus: Trying to Take Responsiblity.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 43, no. 3 (2014): 9–16.
Katsman, Roman. “‘The First Shall Be the Last: Rethinking Antisemitism’, by Adam Katz and Eric Gans (Review).” Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 36, no. 2 (August 7, 2018): 80–83.
Katz, Adam. “A Disciple’s Transdisciplinary Creed: One Big Discipline; or, Faith in Science, Science of Faith.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 568 (December 16, 2017).
———. “Generative Anthropology as the One Big Discipline.” Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology 24, no. 2 (Spring 2019).
Kurakin, Dmitry. “The Cultural Mechanics of Mystery: Structures of Emotional Attraction in Competing Interpretations of the Dyatlov Pass Tragedy.” American Journal of Cultural Sociology 7, no. 1 (April 1, 2019): 101–27.
Livingston, Alexander. “The Cost of Liberty: Sacrifice and Survival in Du Bois’s John Brown.” In A Political Companion to W. E. B. Du Bois, edited by Nicholas Knowles Bromell, 207–40. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2018.
López, Roger G. “Self-Knowledge and the Elusive Pleasure of Vengeance.” Philosophia, April 22, 2019.
Meek, Richard. “‘For by the Image of My Cause, I See / The Portraiture of His’: Hamlet and the Imitation of Emotion.” In Hamlet and Emotions, edited by Paul Megna, Bríd Phillips, and R.S. White, 81–108. Palgrave Shakespeare Studies. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Neulinger, Michaela, Martina Kraml, Wolfgang Palaver, and Roman Siebenrock. “Religion – Violence – Communication – Ordre Mondial.” In L’islam Au Pluriel: Foi, Pensée et Société, edited by Ali Mostfa and Michel Younès, 245–52. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2018.
Nicola, Vincenzo Di, and Mary-Jane Rubenstein. “Two Trauma Communities:” In Trauma and Transcendence, edited by Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto, 1st ed., 17–52. Suffering and the Limits of Theory. Fordham University, 2018.
Nordhofen, Eckhard 1945-. “Was soll ich heute tun? : Mario Perniola und die Kultivierung der Lust auf Gottes Willen.” Stimmen der Zeit 237, no. 1 (2019): 43–51.
Quast-Neulinger, Michaela. “The Becoming of a Model: Conflictive Relations and the Shaping of the Quranic Ibrāhīm.” In Mimetic Theory and Islam: ‘The Wound Where Light Enters’, edited by Michael Kirwan and Ahmad Achtar, 47–63. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Reed, Randall William. “Experiments in the Analytical Study of the Bible: Burton Mack as Pioneer.” Bulletin for the Study of Religion 41, no. 3 (2012): 11–16.
Reynolds, Evelyn. “‘Piers Plowman’ and the Poetics of Enigma: Riddles, Rhetoric, and Theology, by Curtis A. Gruenler (Review).” The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 44, no. 1 (February 21, 2018): 112–16.
Saval, P. Kishore. “Hatred and Civilization in the Oresteia.” Social Research: An International Quarterly 85, no. 2 (August 8, 2018): 453–85.
Schellhammer, Barbara. “Zwischen Identitätsverlust und Kulturalismus: Zur Ambivalenz von Religion als kulturelles System.” Stimmen der Zeit 144, no. 3 (2019): 163–72.
Schuback, Marcia Sá Cavalcante. “Sacrifice and Salvation: Jan Patočka’s Reading of Heidegger on the Question of Technology.” In Jan Patočka and the Heritage of Phenomenology: Centenary Papers, edited by Erika Abrams and Ivan Chvatík, 23–37. Contributions to Phenomenology. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011.
Severson, Eric, and Mary-Jane Rubenstein. “The Unsettling of Perception:” In Trauma and Transcendence, edited by Eric Boynton and Peter Capretto, 1st ed., 102–18. Suffering and the Limits of Theory. Fordham University, 2018.
Stroumsa, Guy G. “Open Religion and Its Enemies.” In Confronting Religious Violence: A Counternarrative, edited by Richard A. Burridge and Jonathan Sacks, 59–73. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press, 2018.
Taylor, Matthew. “Gods of the Marketplace: The ‘Work Ethic’ from Max Weber to Universal Basic Income.” Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology 24, no. 2 (Spring 2019).
Tcheuyap, Alexie. “Against the ‘One Cinema System’ Idrissa Ouedraogo and the Invention of Contemporary African Films.” African Studies Review 61, no. 3 (September 13, 2018): 201–6.
Terrefe, Selamawit D. “Speaking the Hieroglyph.” Theory & Event 21, no. 1 (February 13, 2018): 124–47.
Toit, Louise du. “The Geometry of Violence: Africa, Girard, Modernity, by Leonhard Praeg (Review).” Philosophical Papers 38, no. 2 (July 1, 2009): 271–76.
Tuckett, Jonathan. “The a Priori Critique of the Possibility of a Phenomenology of Religion: A Response to the Special Issue on ‘Schutz and Religion.’” Human Studies, April 23, 2019.
Vlasopolos, Anca. “Emotions Unpurged: Antigeneric Theater and the Politics of Violence.” In Borderwork: Feminist Engagements with Comparative Literature, edited by Margaret R. Higonnet, 120–43. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018.
Złocka-Dąbrowska, Magdalena. “Generative Anthropology and the Mahabharata: Cognition, Narrative, Culture.” Anthropoetics: The Journal of Generative Anthropology 23, no. 1 (Fall 2017).
7) Books applying the mimetic theory
Alberg, Jeremiah. Apocalypse Deferred: Girard and Japan. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017.
Bandera, Pablo. Reflection in the Waves: The Interdividual Observer in a Quantum Mechanical World. Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2019.
Bartow, Joanna R. Subject to Change: The Lessons of Latin American Women’s Testimonio for Truth, Fiction, and Theory. Chapel Hill, N.C: U.N.C. Dept. of Romance Languages : Distributed by University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
Bubbio, Paolo Diego, and Chris Fleming, eds. Mimetic Theory and Film. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred 8. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Cowdell, Scott. René Girard and the Nonviolent God. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2018.
Dupuy, Jean Pierre. La guerre qui ne peut pas avoir lieu. Paris: Desclée De Brouwer, 2019.
Kathrein, Elisabeth. Christentum in apokalyptischer Welt: eine Anfrage an Friedrich Hölderlin. Beiträge zur mimetischen Theorie 33. Wien: LIT, 2018.
Kirwan, Michael, and Ahmad Achtar, eds. Mimetic Theory and Islam. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Kluß, Lia Jil. Der Sündenbockmechanismus als Ursprung des Opfers und der Kultur: Anwendung von René Girards “Das Heilige und die Gewalt” auf Voodoo-Zeremonien in Haiti. München: GRIN Verlag, 2018.
Nail, Brian W., and Jeffrey Ellsworth, eds. Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Rocha, João Cezar de Castro, and Flora Thomson-DeVeaux. Shakespearean Cultures: Latin America and the Challenges of Mimesis in Non-Hegemonic Circumstances. Studies in Violence, Mimesis, and Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2019.
Schwager, Raymund. Heilsdrama: Systematische und narrative Zugänge. Gesammelte Schriften. Freiburg Basel Wien: Herder, 2015.
8) Articles applying the mimetic theory
Achtar, Ahmad. “Adam and Eve in the Qur’an: A Mimetic Perspective.” In Mimetic Theory and Islam: ‘The Wound Where Light Enters’, edited by Michael Kirwan and Ahmad Achtar, 39–46. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Anspach, Mark R. “‘Every Man’s House Was His Temple’: Mimetic Dynamics in the Transition from Aşıklı Höyük to Çatalhöyük.” In Religion, History, and Place in the Origin of Settled Life, edited by Ian Hodder, 186–211. Boulder, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 2018.
———. “Paired Leopards and Encircled Prey: Images of Rivalry and Sacrifice at Çatalhöyük.” In Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, edited by Ian Hodder, 129–50. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Atkins, Paul S. “Chigo in the Medieval Japanese Imagination.” The Journal of Asian Studies 67, no. 3 (2008): 947–70.
Bender, Jacob, and Lydia Maunz-Breese. “Louise Erdrich’s The Round House, the Wiindigoo, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.” The American Indian Quarterly 42, no. 2 (2018): 141–61.
Boán, Xosé Pereira. “Liminaridad y mímesis monstruosa en La lengua de las mariposas y Pa negre.” Revista de Estudios Hispánicos 52, no. 2 (October 10, 2018): 639–66.
Breitenfellner, Kirstin, and Rolf App. “Interview: Auf dem medialen Scheiterhaufen: Warum wir auch heute noch Sündenböcke brauchen.” Tagblatt, March 15, 2019.
Brighi, Elisabetta. “Sentiments of Resentment: Desiring Others, Desiring Justice.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 179–94.
Chantre, Benoît. “The Ordeal of the Town: Rites and Symbols at Çatalhöyük.” In Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, edited by Ian Hodder, 165–87. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Choo, John. “A Mimetic Theoretical Approach to Multiculturalism: Normalizing the Singaporean Exception.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 209–36.
Dreher, Rod. “Rene Girard & The Covington Catholic Boys.” The American Conservative (blog), January 27, 2019.
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. “Girard’s Anthropology vs. Cognitive Archaeology.” In Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, edited by Ian Hodder, 209–32. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Ekpunobi, Anthony. “Creative Renunciation of the Will to Violence.” Bogoslovni Vestnik 78, no. 2 (2018): 473–81.
Enright, Lyle. “‘Divine but Not Sacred’: A Girardian Answer to Agamben’s The Kingdom and the Glory.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 237–50.
Gans, Eric. “Luther and Performative Christianity (A Christmas Chronicle).” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 569 (December 25, 2017).
Garrels, Scott R., and Joy M. Bustrum. “From Mimetic Rivalry to Mutual Recognition: Girardian Theory and Contemporary Psychoanalysis.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 9–46.
Girard, René. “La dernière tentative de Jean Paul II: et la vérité du Christianisme.” Revue des Deux Mondes, May 2000, 16–21.
Goodhart, Sandor. “Fathers and Sons, Sacrifice and Substitution: Mimetic Theory and Islam in Genesis 22 and Sura 37.” In Mimetic Theory and Islam: ‘The Wound Where Light Enters’, edited by Michael Kirwan and Ahmad Achtar, 65–85. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Guggenberger, Wilhelm. “Die Ökonomie der Knappheit im Kapitalismus und Gottes Ökonomie der Fülle.” In Mensch und Ökonomie. Wirtschaften zwischen Humanität und Profit, edited by Jörg Albertz, 77–94. Schriftenreihe der Freien Akademie. Berlin: Freie Akademie, 2008.
Johnsen, William A. “Mimetic Theory, the Wall Paintings, and the Domestication, De-Domestication, and Sacrifice of Cattle at Çatalhöyük.” In Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, edited by Ian Hodder, 153–64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Kalveks, Tatiana. “Sinéad O’Connor: Priesthood of the Excluded.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 30, no. 3 (2018): 178–92.
Kirwan, Michael. “Vox Victima, Vox Moderna?: Modernity and Its Discontents.” In Mimetic Theory and Islam: ‘The Wound Where Light Enters’, edited by Michael Kirwan and Ahmad Achtar, 163–73. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Knüsel, Christopher J., Bonnie Glencross, and Marco Milella. “A Girardian Framework for Violent Injuries at Neolithic Çatalhöyük in Their Western Asian Context.” In Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, edited by Ian Hodder, 60–95. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Lamb, Gregory E. “Saint Peter as ’Sympresbyteros’ : Mimetic Desire, Discipleship, and Education.” Christian Education Journal 15, no. 2 (2018): 189–207.
Lawtoo, Nidesh. “Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious (Part Two): The Contagious Hypothesis: Plato, Affect, Mirror Neurons.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 123–60.
Lefler, Nathan. “Two Kinds of Unanimity: St. Benedict, René Girard, and Modern Democratic Governance.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 273–86.
Les Bridgeman. René Girard’s Mimetic Theory in 4 Minutes. YouTube, 2016, 4 minutes.
Marr, Ryan J. “René Girard and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass:” In The Fullness of Divine Worship, edited by Uwe Michael Lang, 33–56. The Sacred Liturgy and Its Renewal. Washington, D.C: Catholic University of America Press, 2018.
McElhinney, Eugene P. “Applying René Girard’s Mimetic Theory in the Religious Education Classroom.” In Global Perspectives on Catholic Religious Education in Schools: Volume II: Learning and Leading in a Pluralist World, edited by Michael T. Buchanan and Adrian-Mario Gellel, 457–67. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2019.
Morrow, Duncan. “There Is a Crack in Everything … New Relationships for Self and Other in Northern Ireland.” In René Girard and Creative Reconciliation, edited by Vern Neufeld Redekop and Thomas Ryba, 267–88. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2014.
Palaver, Wolfgang. “Az áldozatdiskurzusok ambivalenciája: René Girard mimetikus elméletének szemszögébôl megközelítve.” In Áldozat-Narratívák, edited by László Levente Balogh, Miklós Takács, and Tamás Valastyán, 15–26. Budapest: Kijárat Kiadó, 2019.
———. “Death in Çatalhöyük.” In Violence and the Sacred in the Ancient Near East: Girardian Conversations at Çatalhöyük, edited by Ian Hodder, 41–59. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
———. “Die Wahrheit der Opfer: Worin Metz’ Neue Politische Theologie und Girards mimetische Theorie übereinstimmen.” In Theologie in gefährdeter Zeit: Stichworte von nahen und fernen Weggefährten für Johann Baptist Metz zum 90. Geburtstag, edited by Hans-Gerd Janßen, Julia D. E. Prinz, and Michael J. Rainer, 356–59. Religion – Geschichte – Gesellschaft. Fundamentaltheologische Studien 50. Berlin: LIT, 2018.
———. “Populism and Religion: On the Politics of Fear.” Dialog 58, no. 1 (2019): 22–29.
———. “Populismus und Religion angesichts einer Politik der Angst.” Salzburger Theologische Zeitschrift 22, no. 2 (2018): 33–45.
———. “Sacrifice and the Origin of Law.” In Law’s Sacrifice: Approaching the Problem of Sacrifice in Law, Literature, and Philosophy, edited by Brian W. Nail and Jeffrey A. Ellsworth. London: Routledge, 2019.
———. “Sacrifice Between West and East: René Girard, Simone Weil, and Mahatma Gandhi on Violence and Non-Violence.” In Mimesis and Sacrifice: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines, edited by Marcia Pally. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019.
———. “War and Sacrifice: Comparing Jan Patočka and René Girard.” Metodo: International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy 6, no. 2 (2018): 41–69.
Paynter, Helen. “‘Revenge for My Two Eyes’. Talion and Mimesis in the Samson Narrative.” Biblical Interpretation 26, no. 2 (2018): 133–57.
Peters, Ted. “Covenant, Blood, and Violence : America at War with Itself and Others.” Dialog 58, no. 1 (2019): 39–53.
———. “The Resistance of Self-Justification to God’s Grace.” Currents in Theology and Mission 46, no. 1 (January 2018): 58–68.
Praeg, Leonhard. “The Aporia of Collective Violence.” Law and Critique 19, no. 2 (August 1, 2008): 193–223.
Reineke, Martha J. “The Broken Thread: Cervantes, Don Quijote, and War Trauma.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 65–108.
Reyburn, Duncan. “Love in the Time of the Zombie Contagion: A Girardian-Weilienne Reading of World War Z.” Studies in the Fantastic 5 (2017): 47–77.
Sakwa, Richard. “The End of the Revolution: Mimetic Theory, Axiological Violence, and the Possibility of Dialogical Transcendence.” Telos 2018, no. 185 (2018): 35–66.
Santoni, Pierre, and Malcolm DeBevoise. “The French Revolution, Archives, and Mimetic Theory.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 26 (2019): 251–72.
Shore, Marci. “The Sacred and the Myth: Havel’s Greengrocer, Twenty Years Later.” East European Politics & Societies and Cultures 32, no. 2 (2018): 285–93.
Susin, Luiz Carlos. “Das Volk als Lamm Gottes.” Concilium 54, no. 3 (2018): 270–78.
———. “God’s Flock of Lambs.” Concilium 54, no. 3 (2018): 108–17.
Turner, Lorraine. “Help and Hindrance : Clergy Talking about Bullying.” Practical Theology 11, no. 5 (2018): 450–61.
Warrach, Yaniss. “Prison Violence in France and Mimetic Theory.” In Mimetic Theory and Islam: ‘The Wound Where Light Enters’, edited by Michael Kirwan and Ahmad Achtar, 141–48. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2019.
Williams, Jeffrey. “Dying to Save : Child Sacrifice in the Harry Potter and The Hunger Games Series.” Journal of Religion and Popular Culture 30, no. 2 (2018): 75–86.