Bibliography of Literature on the Mimetic Theory vol. LI
by Dietmar Regensburger

University of Innsbruck

published in: Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion vol. 81 (August 2024)

Books concerning the entire work of René Girard

Ayyash, Mark M. A Hermeneutics of Violence: A Four-Dimensional Conception. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.

Chantre, Benoît. René Girard: Biographie. Paris: GRASSET, 2023.

Cowdell, Scott. Mimetic Theory and Its Shadow: Girard, Milbank, and Ontological Violence. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2023.

Dubouchet, Paul. À la redécouverte de la pensée chrétienne avec René Girard: Une thérapie de la violence. Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 2024.

Leroy, Jacques. René Girard ou le cri du prophète: Fécondité théologique d’une pensée. Paris: Editions L’Harmattan, 2022.

Mokrani, Adnane. Toward an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence: In Dialogue with René Girard. Studies in Violence, Mimesis and Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2022.

Toit, Louise du, Ephraim Meir, Ed Noort, and Wolfgang Palaver, eds. Nonviolence and Religion. MDPI – Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2023.

Wilmes, Andreas, and George A. Dunn, eds. René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Articles concerning the entire work of René Girard

Alberg, Jeremiah. “What the Text Omits: Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Violence and the Sacred.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Antonello, Pierpaolo. “Archeologie Della Sovranità e Politiche Del Sacro.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Bacchini, Fabio, Ivan Blečić, Paul Dumouchel, and Emanuel Muroni. “Carving Spaces: Violence and the Sacred.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Barberi, Maria Stella. “Misconoscimento e santità della vittima espiatoria.” Giornale di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Bartlett, Anthony. “Exception or Ekklesia: Solution to a Girardian Dead End.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31, no. 1 (2024): 129–43.

Bastin, Rohan. “Sacrifice, Sovereignty and the Dynamics of Structure and Anti-Structure.” In Egalitarian Dynamics: Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process, edited by Bruce Kapferer and Marina Gold, 107–28. Oxford, New York: Berghahn Books, 2024.

Böhm, Thomas H. “René Girard und die „Mimetische Theorie“.” Zeitschrift für Pastoraltheologie (ZPTh) 43, no. 2 (2023): 35–44.

Burgis, Luke. “Culture War as Imitation Game.” The New Atlantis, no. 73 (2023): 92–101.

———. “How to Know What You Really Want.” Psyche, December 15, 2021.

———. “Wanting (with Luke Burgis)”. YouTube: The Minimalists Podcast, Ep. 290, 2021.

Cain, William E. “The Denial of Peter: René Girard, Mimetic Desire, and Conversion.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 101–21.

Checchi, Tania. “Time, the City and the Other: Girard and Levinas on Babel.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 305–19. Innsbruck: Innsbruck university press, 2023.

Danco, Alex. “Secrets about People: A Short and Dangerous Introduction to René Girard.” Alex Danco’s Newsletter (blog), April 28, 2019.

Darcy, Michael. “Personalism as Interpersonalism: John Paul II and René Girard.” Quaestiones Disputatae 9, no. 2 (2019): 126–48.

Dixon, Bryce. “Your Daddy or Your Father?—Mimetic Desire versus Christian Fatherhood.” BYU Studies 62, no. 4 (2023): 121–40.

Dumouchel, Paul. “Sacrifice and the Sacred.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Edwards, Mark J. “Modern Philosophy and Origen.” Modern Theology 38, no. 2 (2022): 204–19.

Fornari, Giuseppe. “Striving for Theoretical Recognition: Violence and the Sacred by René Girard.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Gielarowski, Andrzej. “Le christianisme en tant que réponse à la crise de la culture contemporaine. La pensée apocalyptique de René Girard.” Gregorianum 103, no. 3 (2022): 539–60.

Gifford, Paul. “René Girard and Mimetic Theory.” St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, June 1, 2023.

Gomiero, Natã Luís Raphael Vicente, and Paulo Sérgio Lopes Gonçalves. “A religião cristã em perspectiva pós-moderna: diálogo entre Gianni Vattimo e René Girard.” Revista de Cultura Teológica, no. 101 (2022): 184–205.

Goodhart, Sandor. “Violence and the Sacred at Fifty: Mimetic Desire, the Scapegoat Mechanism, and Its Destructive Revelation.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Göthling-Zimpel, Kristina. “Geschlechtlicher Sündenbock: von der Relevanz der Kategorie Gender in der Theorie der mimetischen Gewalt (René Girard).” In Gender (Studies) in der Theologie: Begründungen und Perspektiven, edited by Marianne Heimbach-Steins and Judith Könemann, 97–107. Münsterische Beiträge zur Theologie, Neue Folge, Band 4. Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, 2021.

Grande, Per Bjørnar. “Imitation, Violence, and Exchange: Girard and Mauss.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30, no. 1 (2023): 221–31.

Harding, Brian. “Rebellion and the Sacred: Sacrifice in Camus’s Rebel.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30, no. 1 (2023): 29–45.

Hidalgo, Oliver. “Die Konfliktanfälligkeit religiöser Identitäten und die politisch-theologische Spaltung Europas.” Ethik und Gesellschaft, no. 1 (August 16, 2023).

Hren, Joshua. “Men Becoming Gods in ‘Style’: Gioia and Girard on Divinized Desire.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30, no. 1 (2023): 149–61.

Kraege, Jean-Denis. “René Girard: un modèle à imiter et à dépasser.” Études théologiques et religieuses 98, no. 2 (2023): 205–26.

Liao, Xianghui. “The Reception of René Girard’s Works in China.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 217–50.

Lieber, Kevin. What Is Victimhood? (The Scapegoat Mechanism). YouTube: Vsauce2, 2017.

Martínez, Desiderio Parrilla. “Theory of the Apophantic Judgment According to René Girard.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 147–64.

McNeil, Jeffery D. “The Mimetic Sacred: Girard and Bataille Transcending Desire.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30, no. 1 (2023): 103–29.

Merrill, Trevor Cribben. “Martin Girard Narrates His Father René’s ‘I See Satan Fall Like Lightning’ – and Now You Can Hear It, Too!” The Book Haven (blog), November 28, 2022.

Miguel, Maiara Rubia. “O caráter religioso do judiciário: uma reflexão a partir de René Girard.” Sacrilegens 18, no. 1 (2021): 10–29.

Morigi, Silvio. “Λέγειν / Κρίνειν. The Violent Origins of Logos and a Paradox in the Writing of the Gospels.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Mormino, Gianfranco. “‘The System Truly Comes First’. Culture and Biology in Girard’s Analysis of Kinship.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Packer, Matthew. “Imitation Game: Why You Want What Other People Want.” NZ Herald, January 28, 2022, sec. Life.

Palaver, Wolfgang. “Die Ambivalenz von Opferdiskursen. Ein Zugang aus der Sicht der mimetischen Theorie René Girards.” In Opfermythen in Zentraleuropa, edited by Lászlo Levente Balogh and Christoph Leitgeb, 21–33. Wien: Praesens Verlag, 2021.

Reineke, Martha J. “The View from Pȏle Nord: Sartre, Beauvoir, and Girard on Mimesis, Embodiment, and Desire.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30, no. 1 (2023): 1–27.

Sakrani, Raja. “Images of the Other in Islam: Is There an Islamic Mimeticism?” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 175–96. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Sandoval, Ronald Rico. “Ethos de la conversión. Entre la ética y la política en René Girard: Between Ethics and Politics in René Girard.” Cauriensia. Revista anual de Ciencias Eclesiásticas 18 (December 1, 2023): 645–60.

Stucchi, Marco, and Tania Checchi. “Introduction.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Tück, Jan-Ηeiner. “Alle gegen einen – einer für alle: Der leidende Gottesknecht und die Passion Jesu Christi im Licht René Girards.” In Dein Wort ist meinem Fuß eine Leuchte”: Festschrift für Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger, edited by Georg Braulik, Agnethe Siquans, and Jan-Heiner Tück, 348–62. Freiburg Basel Wien: Herder, 2022.

Vinolo, Stephane. “Le statut du réalisme dans La violence et le sacré de René Girard.” Giornale di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Reviews about single works of René Girard and scholars of Mimetic Theory

Bartlett, Anthony. “East Timor, Rene Girard and Neocolonial Violence: Scapegoating as Australian Policy (Review of ‘East Timor, Rene Girard and neocolonial violence: Scapegoating as Australian policy’, by Susan Connelly).” The Australasian Catholic Record 100, no. 1 (January 2023): 114–16.

Bratton, Mark. “Review of ‘Towards Reconciliation: Understanding Violence and the Sacred after René Girard’, by Paul Gifford.” Journal of Contemporary Religion 37, no. 2 (2022): 370–72.

Gallego, David García-Ramos, and Eduardo Torrecilla. “Review of ‘(New)Fascism. Contagion, Community, Myth’, by Nidesh Lawtoo.” Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 4 (2021): 138–42.

Gruenler, Curtis A. “Signs Against Violence: A Review Essay (Review of ‘Theology Beyond Metaphysics: Transformative Semiotics of René Girard’ and ‘Signs of Change: The Bible’s Evolution of Divine Nonviolence’, by Anthony Bartlett).” Christian Scholar’s Review 52, no. 2 (2023).

Nesbitt, Huw. “A French Thinker in Revolt against Freud and Post-Structuralism (Review of ‘All Desire Is a Desire for Being’, by René Girard).” TLS, December 22, 2023.

Robertson, Ben P. “Review of ‘Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: René Girard and Literary Criticism’, ed. by Pierpaolo Antonello and Heather Webb.” South Central Review 39, no. 2 (2022): 166–69.

Robinette, Brian D. “Review of ‘Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion with René Girard’, by Wolfgang Palaver.” Modern Theology 38, no. 3 (2022): 634–37.

Scott, Neil. “Review of ‘All Desire Is a Desire for Being’, by René Girard.” The Crop (blog), November 5, 2023.

Interviews with René Girard and scholars of Mimetic Theory

Dormoy, Nadine. The World of René Girard: Interviews. Translated by William A. Johnsen. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Ebrahimian, John Babak. Remembering Professor René Girard: A Tribute. A Collection of 27 Interviews Conducted with People Who Knew René Girard over the Course of His Academic Career. YouTube: COV&R, 2023.

Palaver, Wolfgang. “Für den Frieden kämpfen – in Zeiten des Krieges von Ghandi und Mandela lernen.” ORF Sound Focus. July 7, 2024.

———. “Wolfgang Palaver on the Complex Relationship between Violence and Religion.” EI Weekly Listen, November 17, 2023.

Books with references to René Girard

Abril, Michael Anthony. Evolutionary Theology: A Critical Introduction. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2024.

Anderson, Fred R. Why Did Jesus Die and What Does That Have to Do with Me?: A Biblical and Sacramental Understanding of Atonement. Eugene, Or.: Wipf and Stock, 2022.

Appelbaum, Robert. The Renaissance Discovery of Violence, from Boccaccio to Shakespeare. New York: Anthem Press, 2022.

Bashaw, Jennifer Garcia. Scapegoats: The Gospel through the Eyes of Victims. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2022.

Battell, Sophie E. On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare’s Drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Brunotte, Ulrike. The Femininity Puzzle: Gender, Orientalism and the Jewish Other’. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022.

Cayley, David. Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2021.

David, Gena St. The Brain and the Spirit. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2021.

Dimbath, Oliver, and Mirko Wittwar. Oblivionism: Forgetting and Forgetfulness in Modern Science. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

Eljaiek-Rodríguez, Gabriel. Colombian Gothic in Cinema and Literature. New York: Anthem Press, 2022.

Graaf, Beatrice de. Radicale verlossing: wat terroristen geloven. Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2021.

Hadley, S. J. A Symphony of Distances: Patristic, Modern, and Gendered Dimensions of Balthasar’s Trinitarian Theology. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022.

Hammering, Klaus K. Y. Perilous Wagers: Gambling, Dignity, and Day Laborers in Twenty-First-Century Tokyo. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2024.

Hillmayer, Moritz. Zwischen Spiel und Story: Mimetische Strukturen im Computerspiel. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2022.

Jackson, Reginald. A Proximate Remove: Queering Intimacy and Loss in The Tale of Genji. California: University of California Press, 2021.

Jensen, Jeppe Sinding. The Study of Religion in a New Key: Theoretical and Philosophical Soundings in the Comparative and General Study of Religion. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2023.

Kaplan, Grant. Faith and Reason through Christian History: A Theological Essay. Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022.

Kehnel, Annette. The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability. Waltham: Brandeis University Press, 2024.

Konitzer, Viktor. Geschichten zerstören: Antinarrative Prosa in der Österreichischen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2021.

Lomnitz, Claudio. Sovereignty and Extortion: A New State Form in Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024.

Merrick, Jeffrey. Policing Same-Sex Relations in Eighteenth-Century Paris: Archival Voices from 1785. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2024.

Naylor, Phillip. France and Algeria: A History of Decolonization and Transformation. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2024.

Pagano, Tullio. Italy to Argentina: Travel Writing and Emigrant Colonialism. Amherst College Press, 2023.

Pelfrey, Robert. Spiritual Formation as the Hero’s Journey in John of Ruusbroec. Abingdon New York (N.Y.): Routledge, 2022.

Rankine, Patrice D. Theater and Crisis: Myth, Memory, and Racial Reckoning in America, 1964-2020. Ann Arbor, MI: Lever Press, 2024.

Roehl, Max. Der abwesende Souverän: Zum Politischen im Werk Friedrich Dürrenmatts. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2021.

Schenk, OP, Richard. Revelations of Humanity: Anthropological Dimensions of Theological Controversies. Washington: The Catholic University of America Press, 2022.

Shapiro, Michael J., and Sam Okoth Opondo. Passages: On Geo-Analysis and the Aesthetics of Precarity. Manchester University Press, 2024.

Articles with references to René Girard

Antier, Guilhen. “Fanatiques, encore un effort pour être radicaux!” Esprit, no. 470 (2020): 125–34.

Arjakovsky, Antoine. “Belief in Politics and the Politics of Faith: The Case of the 2019 Presidential Elections in Ukraine.” In Beyond the Death of God:Religion in 21st Century International Politics, edited by Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, 97–119. University of Michigan Press, 2022.

Arumugam, Indira. “Hunting for Monsters (and Gods): The Making of an Anthropologist.” In Living with Monsters: Ethnographic Fiction about Real Monsters, edited by Yasmine Musharbash and Ilana Gershon, 113–32. Punctum Books, 2023.

Assheuer, Thomas. “Der gnostische Skandal.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the gospel: Festschrift für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 273–82. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Attali, Jacques. “The History and Future of Education.” Horizons: Journal of International Relations and Sustainable Development, no. 22 (2023): 166–81.

Aulicino, Jorge. “Ocho notas sobre la Comedia de Dante.” Guaraguao 25, no. 68 (2021): 27–56.

Baena, Victoria. “Altars of Novelty and Profit.” The New York Review of Books, June 16, 2022.

Beacom, Nathan. “The Liberating Word Made Flesh.” Comment Magazine, March 11, 2021.

Bellver, Juan Pablo Serra, and Ramón González Férriz. “Atrévete a no saber: en torno a nuestra (relativa) ignorancia de la circunstancia histórica.” Cuadernos de Pensamiento Político, no. 69 (2021): 98–110.

Bigo, Didier, Laurent Bonnefoy, Bruno Charbonneau, Marielle Debos, Mathias Delori, Clara Egger, Emmanuel-Pierre Guittet, et al. “Guerre et contre-terrorisme: Introduction.” Cultures et Conflits, no. 123/124 (2021): 11–20.

Bondi, Damiano. “Man Is How He Eats: Vegetarianism and Animalism in a Religious Perspective.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Breu, Clarissa. “The Exposure of Violence: A Performative Reading of Sacrifice in Genesis 22 with Judith Butler and Giorgio Agamben.” Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 8, no. 2 (2022): 275–89.

Brooks, David. “What the Beatles Tell Us About Fame.” The New York Times, February 10, 2022, sec. Opinion.

Cámara, Mario. “entre-lugar.” In Diccionario de términos críticos de la literatura y la cultura en América Latina, edited by Beatriz Colombi, 185–94. CLACSO, 2021.

Castillo, Daniel P. “The Age of Cain: The ‘Anthropocene,’ Western Extractive Colonialism, and the Christian Imagination.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 44, no. 1 (2024): 27–43.

Catalão, Helena B. “Thomas d’Aquin dans les Ténèbres de l’Antisémitisme. Considérations sur le faux témoignage dans la théorie de la justice.” Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 79, no. 1/2 (2023): 693–708.

Chaves, Christine. “Rituais da Mística. A mística do MST e as aporias da ação coletiva.” Revista de Antropologia 65, no. 3 (2022): 1–33.

Creswell, Robyn. “Review of ‘Lebanon’s Infernal Circle’, by Rawi Hage, Rawi Hage, and Rawi Hage.” The New York Review of Books, January 16, 2020.

Davies, Tom Powell. “Hunger in a World without Scarcity: Clashing Ethical Perspectives and the Spacetime of Immoral Food Sharing in Asmat, Indonesian Papua.” L’Homme, no. 243/244 (2022): 95–128.

Diaz, Jose María Cardesin. “Introducción: Cuatro Aproximaciones a La Revuelta Popular.” Historia Social, no. 109 (2024): 96–106.

Dickinson, Colby. “Ending Christian Hegemony: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Ends of Eurocentric Thought.” Open Theology 8, no. 1 (2022): 14–27.

Diebel, Anne. “Review of ‘The Dungeon Master’, by Max Chafkin.” The New York Review of Books, February 10, 2022.

Dijk, Yra van, and Ghanima Kowsoleea. “A Central Voice in Caribbean Literature: Media and Memory in the Novels of Astrid Roemer.” NWIG: New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 96, no. 1/2 (2022): 29–54.

Dingley, James. “The Roots of Terrorism: Ireland 1920-40.” Rivista Di Studi Politici Internazionali 89, no. 3/4 (355/356) (2022): 499–518.

Espinosa-Hernández, Patricia. “Desde la mujer símbolo a la política de la mujer en ‘Los detectives salvajes’ y ‘2666’ de Roberto Bolaño: Una lectura feminista.” Revista Chilena de Literatura, no. 108 (2023): 179–94.

Estrada, Jorge. “The Becomings of a Mime: Dis/Empowerment in Borges’ ‘Emma Zunz’.” MLN 138, no. 5 (2023): 1481–97.

Franco, Sergio R. “La parte maligna del sol: odio y rabia en José María Arguedas.” Chasqui 52, no. 2 (2023): 87–106.

Fuller, Steve. “Rorty Reframed: Prolegomena to a Post-Truth Modernism.” Common Knowledge 29, no. 1 (2023): 86–101.

Galván-Díaz, F.J. “‘Cada uno a su’: Orden y sacrificio en ‘Diamantes Y Pedernales’.” Nueva Revista de Filología Hispánica 72, no. 1 (2024): 309–35.

Gans, Eric. “The Question of Transcendence.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 623 (June 22, 2019).

García, Jeniffer Navarrete, and Iram Isaí Evangelista Ávila. “La mímesis de la identidad en El lugar sin límites de José Donoso.” Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 4 (2021): 34–47.

García, Nicolás Cárdenas. “Inmigrantes Chinos En Tierra De Revolucionarios. El Caso De Sinaloa.” Historia Mexicana 73, no. 1 (289) (2023): 111–66.

Gnerre, Orazio Maria. “Geopolitica e cambi di paradigmi: distanziamento e misure anticovid.” Rivista di Studi Politici Internazionali 89, no. 2 (354) (2022): 301–12.

Graaf, Beatrice de. “Radicale verlossing: een inleiding.” Tijdschrift Sociologie 4, no. dossier Radicale verlossing (2023): 62–74.

Guanzini, Isabella. “Beyond the Sacrificial Fantasy: Body, Law, and Desire.” Open Theology 10, no. 1 (2024).

Guggenberger, Wilhelm, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger. “Vorwort.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the gospel: Festschrift für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 9–15. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Guittet, Emmanuel-Pierre, Antoine Mégie, and Sharon WEIll. “Ce que la « guerre au terrorisme » fait à la justice.” Cultures et Conflits, no. 123/124 (2021): 95–104.

Guo, Li. “Among Women: Feminine Homoeroticism in Li Guiyu’s ‘Liuhuameng’ (Dream of the Pomegranate Flowers).” In Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction, 75–108. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2021.

Ho, Benjamin Tze Ern. “Who Is China? A Remaking of National Identity.” In China’s Political Worldview and Chinese Exceptionalism: International Order and Global Leadership, 65–92. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

HuamÁn, Ponciano Del Pino. “Communal Minute Books: Writing, Ethnography, and History of the War in Peru in the 1980s.” Journal of Social History 57, no. 4 (2024): 619–39.

Jung, Eunchul. “Ambiguous, Amorous, Agonistic, Not Able: An Alternative to Adamant, Apathetic, Antagonistic, Able Society.” In Assembling Futures: Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion, edited by Catherine Keller, 142–61. Ashland: Fordham University Press, 2024.

Jung, Jacqueline E. “Caroline Bynum and Medieval Art History in America: Perspectives from an Art Historian and Student.” Common Knowledge 30, no. 1 (2024): 76–123.

Juskus, Ryan. “Transforming Sacrifice Zones into Sacred Zones: A Christological Vision and  Practice of Environmental Justice.” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 44, no. 1 (2024): 45–63.

Kambo, Kevin M. “On Liberal Education: Plato’s Erotic Intellect and Newman’s Two Ideas of a Mind.” Newman Studies Journal 21, no. 1 (2024): 80–103.

Kersten, Carool. “Critics as Caretakers, Religion as Critique.” In What Is Islamic Studies?: European and North American Approaches to a Contested Field, edited by Leif Stenberg and Philip Wood, 1:42–59. Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Kimbriel, Samuel. “Habits for Ideological Times.” Comment Magazine, January 16, 2020.

Kitch, Aaron. “Idolatry, Sexuality, and Protestant Theatricality in Two Gentlemen of Verona.” Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England 34 (2021): 81–101.

Koci, Katerina. “Introduction: Sacrifice and Self-Sacrifice: A Religious Concept under Transformation.” Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 8, no. 2 (2022): 225–33.

Kottman, Paul A. “Bliss Unrevealed: The ‘Trial’ in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale.” In Entertaining the Idea: Shakespeare, Performance, and Philosophy, edited by Lowell Gallagher, James Kearney, and Julia Reinhard Lupton, 185–206. University of Toronto Press, 2021.

Krenz, Joanna. “Regrowing Divine Trees: Zhai Yongming’s ‘The Eighth Day’ as a Reflection on the Intellectual and Ethical Ecosystem of Posthuman Eden.” Rocky Mountain Review 76, no. 1 (2022): 18–40.

Lacueva, Cristina Fernández. “El Discurso Delirante De Phèdre En La Sexta Escena Del Acto Iv: Una Confesión Frustrada Y Cuatro Juicios.” Revista Chilena de Literatura, no. 104 (2021): 547–64.

Larrosa, Jorge. “La escuela y la mímesis atencional:” Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 4 (2021): 67–76.

Liebsch, Burkhard. “Gewalt als Herausforderung des Politischen heute: Mit Blick auf die neueste Politisierung des kindlichen Körpers.” Zeitschrift für Politik 68, no. 1 (2021): 48–68.

Lobo, Gregory. “Against Identity: Individuality as the Foundation of Open Society.” In Open Society Unresolved: The Contemporary Relevance of a Contested Idea, edited by Christof Royer and Liviu Matei, 48–58. Central European University Press, 2023.

Lowe, John Wharton. “Criminality, Sexuality, and Violence in Faulkner and Wright: Sanctuary and The Long Dream.” In Faulkner, Welty, Wright: A Mississippi Confluence, edited by James G. Thomas, Jay Watson, and Annette Trefzer, 183–201. University Press of Mississippi, 2024.

Lozano, Kevin. “The Oracle of Public Radio.” The New York Review of Books, May 6, 2023.

Lucamante, Stefania. “‘La domenica vestivi di rosso‘di Silvana Grasso: un esempio di ‘Künstlerroman’.” Italica 97, no. 4 (2020): 718–51.

Marcks, Holger, and Janina Pawelz. “Vom Opfermythos zur Gewaltfantasie: Die Funktionsweise von rechtsextremen Bedrohungsnarrativen.” In Inszenieren und Mobilisieren: Rechte und islamistische Akteure digital und analog, edited by Ursula Birsl, Julian Junk, Martin Kahl, and Robert Pelzer, 81–108. Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2022.

MacDiarmid, Frazer. The Memory of Ignatius of Antioch. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2023.

Mekki-Berrada, Abdelwahed, and Leen D’Haenens. “From Media and Pseudo-Scholarly Islamophobia in Post 9/11 Moral Panic to ‘Meta-Solidarity.’” In Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation: Perspectives on Media, Academia and Socio-Political Scapes from Europe and Canada, edited by Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada and Leen D’Haenens, 247–64. Leuven University Press, 2023.

Mileski, Greg. “The ‘Righteous Vaccinated’ and the ‘Unrighteous Unvaccinated’? How Śāntideva’s Bodhicaryāvatāra and the Gospel of John Might Help Us Understand the Ongoing Pandemic.” Dialog 61, no. 2 (2022): 125–33.

Millán, Alexis Daniel Rosim. “Notas sobre ética y traducción en la obra de Silvana Rabinovich.” Horizontes Decoloniales / Decolonial Horizons 8, no. 1 (2023): 53–86.

Miller, Randolph. “Republican Socialism and Gendered Portrayals of Catholic Masculinity in Nineteenth-Century France.” Historical Reflections / Réflexions Historiques 46, no. 3 (2020): 78–100.

Milliner, Mathew J. “American Bacchanal.” Comment Magazine, December 12, 2021.

Mirabal, Elizabeth, and Carlos Velazco. “Fernando Palenzuela: ‘Escrito Para Mi Sombra y El Olvido.’” Cuban Studies 53, no. 1 (2024): 146–69.

Moir, Michael A. “Blood on the Snow, Soot on the Carpet: Belief as Pedagogy in Terry Pratchett’s Hogfather.” Mythlore 41, no. 2(142) (2023): 27–40.

Moser, Keith. “A Proustian Reading of Michel Onfray’s ‘Cosmos’ and Christian Signol’s ‘Les Vrais Bonheurs’: ‘Privileged Moments’ of Sensorial Ecstasy.” Dalhousie French Studies 117 (2020): 95–109.

Mustière, Philippe. “Jules Verne, L’enchanteur Désenchanté. Beauté Et Terreur Du Cataclysme.” Revue d’Histoire littéraire de la France 122, no. 4 (2022): 915–24.

Osborn, Carly. “Shorter Notices: Duns, G. Ryan and T. Derrick Witherington (EDS): René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture.” Theological Studies 83, no. 3 (2022): 500–500.

Potolsky, Matthew. “Verisimilitude: A Reintroduction.” MLN 138, no. 5 (2023): 1422–37.

Quast-Neulinger, Michaela. “Haltung zeigen Theologie der Religionen und Sozialethik auf dem Weg des Friedens.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the gospel: Festschrift für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 387–406. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Regensburger, Dietmar, and Nikolaus Wandinger. “Introduction.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 9–14. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Rehm, Rafael. “Emotionalisierung als Entgrenzung des sozialen Kriegszustands: Der Kriegszustand des Politischen als Transmitter der Emotionalisierung.” In Die Emotionalisierung des Politischen, edited by Paul Helfritzsch and Jörg Müller Hipper, 1st ed., 175–94. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2021.

Rivero, José Javier Blanco. “El concepto de sujeto en Luhmann.” In El concepto de sujeto en el pensamiento contemporáneo, edited by Elías J. Palti and Rafael Polo Bonilla, 51–74. Prometeo Editorial, 2022.

Rodríguez-Mansilla, Fernando. “Una Recreación Quijotesca En La Narrativa Peruana: ‘Historia De Cifar Y De Camilo’ De Edgardo Rivera Martínez.” Revista Chilena de Literatura, no. 104 (2021): 949–62.

Sakellariou, Alexandros. “Islam and Violence in Greek Society: The Stigmatisation of Muslims, the Extreme Right and Resistance to Reciprocal Radicalisation.” In Resisting Radicalisation?: Understanding Young People’s Journeys through Radicalising Milieus, edited by Hilary Pilkington, 129–58. Berghahn Books, 2024.

Saumade, Frédéric. “‘Les androïdes rêvent-ils de moutons électriques ?’: Tour de passe-passe perspectiviste et pouvoir sur les âmes.” L’Homme, no. 237 (2021): 155–72.

Singh, Devin. “What Does Evolutionary Biology Tell Us about Relationality as a Basis for Economics and Politics?” In Assembling Futures: Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion, edited by Catherine Keller and Jennifer Quigley, 162–82. Ashland: Fordham University Press, 2024.

Smeets, Wim. “Spirituele autobiografie intergenerationeel.” In Leven als zoekpartij: Intergenerationele zingeving en spiritualiteit, edited by Wim Smeets, 15–26. Radboud University Press, 2023.

Thüring, Hubert. “‘[A]uf meinem bloßen Herzen‘: Kollektive Produktivität in Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz’ ‘Der Waldbruder‘.” In Kollektives Schreiben, edited by Daniel Ehrmann and Thomas Traupmann, 195–211. Leiden: Brill, 2022.

Timms, Aaron. “How to Become an Intellectual in Silicon Valley: A Guide for the Dangerous of Thought.” The Baffler, no. 56 (2021): 78–85.

Ungelenk, Johannes. “Touching Fractions: Troilus and Cressida.” In Touching at a Distance: Shakespeare’s Theatre, 186–242. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Vaidyanathan, Brandon. “Resisting a Culture of Incoherence.” Comment Magazine, April 7, 2022.

Valdez, Elena. “Los fantasmas de Ciudad Trujillo.” In Las ciudades del deseo: Las políticas de género, sexualidad y espacio urbano en el Caribe hispano, 57–94. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2023.

Vargas Castro, Iván Camilo. “Border Citizenships: Justice and Hospitality in the Border Region between Colombia and Venezuela.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 129–38. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Vijayan, Anilkumar Payyappilly. “Poothapattu: Sobs of a Broken People, Fragmented Ethos, and the Lost Land.” CASTE: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion 5, no. 2 (2024): 314–31.

Vogt, Markus. “Quelle der Hoffnung und Sinnstiftung in einer taumelnden Welt. Zur Bedeutung von Religion in spätmoderner Gesellschaft.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the gospel: Festschrift für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 33–48. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Weihe, Will. “Of Earthquakes and Accumulations: Rewriting Indigeneity, Colonial Terror, and Modern Development in Kleist’s ‘Das Erdbeben in Chili’.” Monatshefte 116, no. 2 (2024): 197–219.

Winstead, Karen. “Thinking About (and With) the ‘Prioress’s Tale’: From Medieval Alterity to Modern Hate Narrative.” The Chaucer Review 59, no. 3 (2024): 409–24.

Wolf, Philipp. “Benjamin’s Mimetic Re-Turn: Language, Body, Memory.” MLN 138, no. 5 (2023): 1460–80.

Wouters, Jelle J. P. “How to Interpret a Lynching?: Immigrant Flows, Ethnic Anxiety, and Sovereignty in Nagaland, Northeast India.” In Flows and Frictions in Trans-Himalayan Spaces: Histories of Networking and Border Crossing, edited by Gunnel Cederlöf and Willem van Schendel, 167–202. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022.

Yalçin, Resul, and Umair Gul. “Religion, Armed Conflict, and the Quest for ‘Secular’: Mapping Martyrdom in Kashmir.” Insight Turkey 25, no. 1 (2023): 205–22.

Zakai, Orian. “Paths of Honey: Jonathan Son of Saul in Hebrew Women’s Queer Poetics.” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 43, no. 1 (2024): 69–90.

דורפמן, עירן (Eran Dorfman). “החיים כנשף מסכות – Life as a Masquerade Ball: בעקבות פרוסט.” Dappim: Research in Literature / דפים למחקר בספרות 23 (2021): 191–206.

Books applying the mimetic theory

Bartlett, Anthony. Signs of Change: The Bible’s Evolution of Divine Nonviolence. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2022.

———. Unbecoming a Priest: A Memoir. Foreword by Gena St David. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2023.

Bellinger, Charles K. The Tree of Good and Evil: Or, Violence by the Law and against the Law. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, 2023.

Chantre, Benoît. The Time Has Grown Short: René Girard, or the Last Law. Translated by Trevor Cribben Merrill. Breakthroughs in Mimetic Theory. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2022.

Connelly, Susan. East Timor, René Girard and Neocolonial Violence: Scapegoating as Australian Policy. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Distefano, Matthew J., and Nick Polk. Mimetic Theory & Middle-Earth: Untangling Desire in Tolkien’s Legendarium. Quoir, 2024.

Duns, Ryan G., and T. Derrick Witherington, eds. René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture. Lanham Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2021.

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. How to Think About Catastrophe: Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying. Translated by M. B. DeBevoise and Mark R. Anspach. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2023.

Girard, René. Acabar a Clausewitz: Conversaciones con Benoît Chantre. Translated by Ángel Barahona Plaza. Mimesis 1. Madrid: Editorial Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, 2023.

———. All Desire Is a Desire for Being: Essential Writings. With an Introduction by Cynthia L. Haven. Edited by Cynthia L. Haven. London: Penguin Classics, 2023.

———. Warum kämpfen wir? Und wie hören wir auf?: Imitation und Streit. Edited by Cynthia L. Haven. Translated by Ulrich Bossier. Leipzig: Reclam Verlag, 2022.

Guggenberger, Wilhelm, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, eds. Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the gospel: Festschrift für Wolfgang Palaver. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Hinojosa, Kamilla Skarström. ‘Serek Ha-Yaḥad’ (1QS) in Dialogue with Mimetic Theory: Scapegoat Mechanisms Unveiled. Leiden: Brill, 2024.

Launspach, Els. Richard Revisited: A Novel about Shakespeare and Richard III. Translated by Laura Vroomen. Perseverance Publishing, 2022.

Lawtoo, Nidesh. Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation. Leuven University Press, 2022.

———. Violence and the Oedipal Unconscious: Vol. 1, The Catharsis Hypothesis. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2023.

———. Violence and the Mimetic Unconscious, Volume 2: The Affective Hypothesis. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2023.

Lynch, Paul. Persuasions of God: Inventing the Rhetoric of René Girard. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2024.

Marquez Muñoz, Jorge. Tiempos Miméticos: De la II Guerra Mundial al desmembramiento de la URSS. Mexico: FCPS-UNAM, 2022.

———. Tiempos Miméticos: De principios del siglo  XX al inicio de la II Guerra Mundial. Mexico: FCPS-UNAM, 2022.

McLaren, Brian, and Gareth Higgins. Cory and the Seventh Story. Convergent Books. Colorado Springs: The Seventh Story, 2023.

Oughourlian, Jean-Michel. Alterity. Translated by Andrew J. McKenna. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2023.

Palaver, Wolfgang. Für den Frieden kämpfen: In Zeiten des Krieges von Gandhi und Mandela lernen. Friedensethische Überlegungen. Innsbruck: Tyrolia Verlag, 2024.

Pally, Marcia. White Evangelicals and Right-Wing Populism: How Did We Get Here? London: Routledge, 2022.

Redekop, Vern Neufeld, and Gloria Neufeld Redekop, eds. Awakening: Exploring Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2019.

Regensburger, Dietmar, and Nikolaus Wandinger, eds. Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Robinette, Brian D. The Difference Nothing Makes: Creation, Christ, Contemplation. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023.

Skidmore, Simon. Capital Punishment in the Pentateuch: Why the Bible Prescribes Ritual Killing. London: T&T Clark, 2022.

Strömquist, Liv. Im Spiegelsaal. Translated by Katharina Erben. Berlin: avant-verlag, 2021.

Tomelleri, Stefano, and Martino Doni. Playing Sociology: Theory and Games for Coping with Mimetic Crisis and Social Conflict. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Vos, Matthew S. Strangers and Scapegoats: Extending God’s Welcome to Those on the Margins. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 2022.

Ward, Bernadette Waterman. Eliot’s Angels: George Eliot, René Girard, and Mimetic Desire. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022.

Wierschem, Markus. Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Articles applying the mimetic theory

Alberg, Jeremiah. “Immanuel Kant.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 206–30. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

———. “Jean-Jacques Rousseau.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 163–82. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Arcuri, Fabrizio. “The Idiot Patrick Bateman: A New Configuration of Caricatural ‘Ultra-Christianity.’” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31, no. 1 (2024): 177–201.

Astell, Ann. “Christ Disguised: Matthew 25 in Simone Weil and Three Saints’ Legendst.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the Gospel: Festschrift Für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 177–98. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

———. “Compunction and Conversion in Henry James’s ‘The Altar of the Dead.’” Religion & Literature 53, no. 3 (2021): 99–121.

Bao, Yuhui, and Ian Dennis. “Sophie, Greta, Cuiyuan, and Feminist Desire: Stories by Ding Ling, Alice Munro, and Eileen Chang.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30, no. 1 (2023): 131–47.

Bashaw, Jennifer Garcia. “The Woman Saved from Stoning: An Answer to Scapegoats and Scapegoating.” Review & Expositor 120, no. 1–2 (May 1, 2023): 129–34.

Belangia, Sherwood. “Plato.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 1–27. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Belangia, Sherwood, Kathleen M. “Mimesis and the Piety of Socrates.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 291–304. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Bellinger, Charles K. “Søren Kierkegaard.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 320–47. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Bigo, Didier, Laurent Bonnefoy, Mathias Delori, Anastassia Tsoukala, and Christophe Wasinski. “La rivalité mimétique, une matrice de la guerre contre le terrorisme et de ses stratégies discursives ?” Cultures et Conflits, no. 123/124 (2021): 21–36.

Bourdin, Jean-Marc. “Alexis de Tocqueville.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 293–319. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

———. “We Are All Migrants.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 17–27. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Busch, Austin. “Sacrifice and Atonement in Toni Morrison’s ‘Beloved’ and William Faulkner’s ‘Light in August’.” Christianity & Literature 73, no. 2 (2024): 229–59.

Cannata, Juan Pablo. “A Word of Scandal: Managing Dissent in the Spanish Polemic over Marry Him and Be Submissive.” Church, Communication and Culture 9, no. 1 (2024): 79–102.

Cantalapiedra, Arturo Encinas, and Alexandra Zhou Lin. “Destrucción del mundo y sustitución en A.I. Artificial Intelligence, de Spielberg.” Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 4 (2021): 12–33.

Cantero, María Araceli Oñate. “Violencia, Educación y Teoría Mimética. Hacia una mímesis positiva.” Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 4 (2021): 106–37.

Carr, Dom Elias. “Behind Veterans Day—Contrasting Paths to Peace (Part I).” Word on Fire (blog), November 4, 2022.

Castrillo, Carlos V. “El derecho y la economía como instrumentos de paz: ¿temporal o definitiva? – EMPRESA.” Empresa, February 8, 2024.

———. “La protección de obras creadas por la IA a la luz del pensamiento de René Girard – Tiempo Judicial.” Tiempo Judical (blog), December 18, 2023.

Chambers, Nathan. “Are Saul’s Sons Scapegoats?” Biblical Interpretation 31, no. 2 (April 18, 2022): 179–96.

Checchi, Tania. “Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 262–92. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

———. “Violent Plasticity: A Phenomenological and Mimetic Approach to Art and Myth.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Chung, Jaeyeon Lucy. “When Xenophobia Spreads Like a Plague: A Critical Pastoral Theological Reflection on Anti-Asian Racism During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Pastoral Theology 31, no. 2–3 (2021): 159–74.

Çiçek, Hüseyin. “René Girard’s Mimetic Theory and Its Value in Understanding Sura Maryam: A Mimetic Analysis of Mythical, Biblical, and Apocryphal Transformations.” Religions 14, no. 7 (2023): 912.

Collins, Marsha S. “The Dynamics of Triangulation in Cervantes’s El Amante Liberal.” Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 45, no. 3 (2021): 531–51.

Connelly, Susan. “Enemy Twins: Israel and Hamas Unite to Massacre Innocents.” Pearls and Irritations (blog), November 9, 2023.

Dever, James Columcille. “Envy Loves to Hide: John Chrysostom Unmasking Envy on Cain’s Fallen Face, Our Fallen Nature.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 321–47. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Díaz-Morlán, Pablo. “A Hypothesis on the Origin of Trade: The Exchange of Lives for Sacrifice and Sex.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 165–87.

———. “The Success and Malaise of Capitalism: A Mimetic View of the Market.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31, no. 1 (2024): 275–92.

Dickey, David L. “Dark Myths: Archetypal Elements and Biblical Themes in Wes Craven’s My Soul to Take Through the Lens of René Girard.” In Theology and Wes Craven, edited by David K. Goodin, 145–62. Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture. Lanham Boulder New York London: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2023.

Dumouchel, Paul. “For Wolfgang Palaver: The Mimetic Tale of a Failed Lynching.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the Gospel: Festschrift Für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 199–210. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

———. “Violence and Accusation.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31, no. 1 (2024): 15–25.

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. “Adam Smith.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 183–205. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

———. “The Philosophic Foundations of Mimetic Theory and Cognitive Science: (Including Artificial Intelligence).” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 1–13.

———. “The Prophecy of Doom Paradox.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the Gospel: Festschrift Für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 211–18. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Eggen, Wiel. “Sacrificial ‘As-If’ and Avuncular Hilarity: Living by Méconnaissance.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30, no. 1 (2023): 69–102.

Elias, Michael. “A Patchwork of Non-Integrated Others.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31, no. 1 (2024): 121–28.

Faldetta, Guglielmo, and Deborah Gervasi. “Escaping the Scapegoat Trap: Using René Girard’s Framework for Workplace Bullying.” Journal of Business Ethics 191, no. 2 (May 1, 2024): 269–83.

Garcia, Carlos. “Violent Conflict, the Struggle for Identity, and the Contagion of Mimetic Desire in the Prison Environment.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31, no. 1 (2024): 95–118.

García, David Reyero, and David García-Ramos Gallego. “Mímesis positiva: educación y teoría mimética.” Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 4 (2021): 151–53. 

García, Liany Vento. “La cómplice de mi caída: una relación de deseo mimético en la novela ‘En Familia’ del escritor chileno Luis Orrego Luco.” Revista Chilena de Literatura, no. 106 (2022): 761–70.

Girard, Martha. “For Wolfgang Palaver.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the Gospel: Festschrift Für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 17–18. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Grande, Per Bjørnar. “Imitation and the Transcendent.” Teologisk Tidsskrift 10, no. 4 (December 21, 2021): 204–15.

Gruenler, Curtis. “How Friendship Works in Higher Education: Inclusive Friendship, Mimetic Theory, and the Liberal Arts.” Revista Interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 4 (2021): 48–66.

Guggenberger, Wilhelm. “Ein Fuchs auf den Spuren des Igels: Ein dankbarer Blick auf das OEuvre Wolfgang Palavers.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the gospel: Festschrift für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 127–46. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

———. “Encounter versus Imagining in Times of Migration.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 29–44. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

———. “Gandhi and Sustainability. An Attempt to Update Timeless Ideas.” Religions 12, no. 9 (2021): 753.

Haw, Chris, and Richard Wrangham. “Killing Our Way Out of Violence: Engaging Wrangham’s The Goodness Paradox.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 63–99.

Hillis, Dave. “Non-Reactive Leadership.” Comment Magazine, January 6, 2022.

Hong, Koog P. “The Golden Calf of Bethel and Judah’s Mimetic Desire of Israel.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 47, no. 4 (June 1, 2023): 359–71.

Kaplan, Grant. “Escalation to Academic Extremes? Revisiting Academic Rivalry in the Möhler/Baur Debate.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30, no. 1 (2023): 163–82.

King, Chelsea Jordan. “Distorted Relations: Engaging Mimetic Theory with Feminist Re-Configurations of Sin.” Giornale Di Filosofia 3, no. 1 (2022).

Kirwan, Michael. “Surviving the Secular: Faith, Grief, Parody.” Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 111, no. 443 (2022): 239–48.

———. “‘Unkinged’: Reading Shakespeare’s Histories with René Girard.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the Gospel: Festschrift Für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 219–36. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

———. “The Drama of the World, the Drama of Theology.” Religions 13, no. 11 (2022): 1093.

Koci, Katerina. “Whose Story? Which Sacrifice? On the Story of Jephthah’s Daughter.” Open Theology 7, no. 1 (2021): 331–44.

Kuzhippallil, George Thomas. “Dramatic Theology: A Hermeneutical Framework for Discerning the Cultural Realities and the Role of Christianity in India.” Religions 13, no. 10 (2022): 954.

Lawtoo, Nidesh. “The Patho-Logies of Exclusion: Politics, Media, (New) Fascism.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 221–50. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Lobo, Gregory J. “The Neurology of Culture, or How We Move From Rage to Ritual in the Process of Hominization.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31, no. 1 (2024): 255–73.

Lyons, Scott Richard. “Flight of Desire: The Conversion of Sherman Alexie.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31, no. 1 (2024): 27–51.

Machuco Rosa, Antonio. “Mimetic Desire, Exclusion, Polarization in Social Digital Networks.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 251–69. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Mares, Sara Martínez. “De la admiración a la envidia. Algunos problemas en el modelaje moral y la educación del carácter.” Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 4 (2021): 88–105.

McKenna, Andrew. “Desire and ‘the Powers’ in Thomas Mann’s ‘Mario and the Magician.’” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the Gospel: Festschrift Für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 237–56. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

———. “Faulkner’s Novels Past and Present.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 39–61.

McLaughlin, Brett. “Imaging Sin and the Passage to Holiness: René Girard, Ecclesial Vision, and the Spiritual Reshaping of Desires.” Irish Theological Quarterly 87, no. 2 (May 1, 2022): 131–47.

Melcer-Padon, Nourit. “A Film-Within-a-Film: Mimetic Contagion and the Viewer in Official Competition.” MLN 138, no. 5 (2023): 1498–1519.

Meyer, John R. “Sacrifice, Violence, and Eucharistic Theology.” Ecclesiology 18, no. 2 (2022): 159–74.

Moosbrugger, Mathias. “Beyond Caravaggio’s Revenge: On the (Im-)Possibility of Teaching Others from Socrates to Józef Niewiadomski.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 367–83. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Mpevo Mpolo, Aimé. “identité humaine des ἄγγελοι, de σατανἄσ et des θηρία en Marc 1,12-13: Analyse méso-structurelle de Marc 1,1-15.” Science et Esprit 74, no. 1 (2022): 55–79.

Niewiadomski, Józef. “Das Sakrale in Heiligkeit verwandelt: Zum Lebensweg von Franziska und Franz Jägerstätter.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the gospel: Festschrift für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 49–62. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Odeny, Timon Ochieng. “Theo-Political Challenges Concerning the Relations of Somali Migration in Kenya: An Exploration of the Dynamics at the Core of Imagining ‘the Other.’” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 111–27. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Onelum, John. “Discerning the Affections: Affect Theory in Conversation with Pentecostal Spirituality on the Problems with the Prosperity Gospel.” PentecoStudies 21, no. 2 (2022): 166–87.

———. “Towards Liberating the Eucharist in the West: An Experiment in Chastened Defamiliarization.” Journal of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity 42, no. 2 (2022): 125–42.

Orsini, Christine. “Blaise Pascal.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 112–38. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Packer, Matthew. “Mimesis & Migration in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s ‘The Sympathizer’, Mohsin Hamid’s ‘Exit West’, and Ai Weiwei’s ‘Human Flow.’” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 61–74. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Palaver, Wolfgang. “Peace in Times of War: Girard’s Mimetic Theory Complemented by Gandhi’s Ethics of Nonviolence.” Roczniki Kulturoznawcze 13, no. 2 (2022): 107–12.

———. “Thomas Hobbes.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 92–111. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

———. “Virginia Woolf ’s Novel ‘To the Lighthouse’ in the Light of Józef Niewiadomski’s Understanding of the Eucharist.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 385–91. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

———. “Wie widerstehen?: Christliche Friedensethik und der Ukraine-Krieg.” Herder Korrespondenz, no. 4 (2022): 21.

———. “Geschwisterlichkeit kann Fremdenfeindlichkeit abbauen.” Theologie der Gegenwart 65, no. 2 (2022): 82.

Palaver, Wolfgang, and Pankaj Mishra. “The Geo-Politics of Mimicry.” Revista Interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 4 (2021): 77–87.

Pigneri, Dominic. “Collective Violence and Birthday Parties: A Girardian Analysis of the Piñata.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 209–16.

Plaza, Ángel Jorge Barahona. “Migraciones de lo sagrado.” Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 4 (2021): 143–50.

Preziosa, María Marta. “La mímesis según René Girard y la toma de decisiones éticas en la empresa.” Veritas, no. 52 (August 2022): 53–71.

Quaranta, Brian P. “The Myrmidon vs. the Abbess: How Contrasting Mechanisms to Resolve Mimetic Contagion in Shakespeare’s ‘Troilus and Cressida’ and ‘Comedy of Errors’ Stand as a Warning Against the Rejection of Christianity in Favor of Resurgent Homeric Ethos.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30, no. 1 (2023): 183–203.

Reese Grosfeld, Kristoff. “The Nonviolently Violent God: Humanity’s Peace, Divine Violence, and Advent Hope.” Anglican Theological Review 105, no. 4 (2023): 424–38.

Regensburger, Dietmar. “Civil Disobedience and Radical Nonviolence in the Light of Mimetic Theory: Challenges by the War in Ukraine and Climate Crisis.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the Gospel: Festschrift Für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 93–108. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Reineke, Martha J. “An Ambivalence of the Heart: De Rougemont, D’Arcy, and Girard.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the Gospel: Festschrift Für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 257–72. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

———. “The Touching Test: AI and the Future of Human Intimacy.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 123–46.

Rocha, João Cezar de Castro. “‘Even Now, Now, Very Now’: Mimesis’s and Imitation’s Temporalities.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30, no. 1 (2023): 47–67.

Rolland, Miguel. “Migration and Identity Appropriation in Ancient Mesoamerica.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 139–57. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Romejko, Adam. “Współczesne papiestwo jako kozioł ofiarny. Interpretacja mimetyczna.” Przegląd Religioznawczy – The Religious Studies Review, no. 4/286 (2022).

Ross, Suzanne. “Acquisitive Desire in Early Childhood: Rethinking Rivalry in the Playroom.” Revista Interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 4 (2021): 1–11.

Roumas, Nicholas G. “René Girard and the Coherence of the Redemptive Work: Example, Instruction, and the Sacrifice of the Cross.” Toronto Journal of Theology 38, no. 2 (2022): 190–203.

Ryba, Thomas. “Augustine of Hippo.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 28–62. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Saber, Yomna. “The Mimetic Desires of Warring Siblings in Fū’ād al-Takarlī’s Novels.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 43 (2023): 90–121.

Salem, Muhammed F. “Loving My Brother-in-Law : Sister Rivalry in the Work of Lehmann and Foenkinos.” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 43 (2023): 122–47.

Sandler, Willibald. “Bergpredigt und Gnadenerfahrung als Fundamente für eine christliche Spiritualität des gewaltlosen Widerstandes.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the gospel: Festschrift für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 77–92. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

———. “Divine Action and Dramatic Christology: A Rereading of Raymund Schwager’s Jesus in the Drama of Salvation.” Religions 14, no. 3 (2023): 390.

Sharma, Paul. “Séduire, C’est Tout: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and the Struggle of Influence.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 30, no. 1 (2023): 205–19.

Siebenrock, Roman. “‘Selig, die Frieden stiften …’: Impulse zur Realisierung eines biblischen Grundauftrags in beängstigender Zeit.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the gospel: Festschrift für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 147–64. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Solarte Rodriguez, Roberto, and Camila Esguerra-Muelle. “Sharks, Angels or Others like Us: How Migrants Acquire the Double-Face of the Sacred.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 159–72. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Somda, Domèbèimwin Vivien. “Immigration from Africa to Europe: Transforming Tragedy into Drama According to René Girard and Raymund Schwager.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 95–109. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Steinmair-Pösel, Petra. “Gospel Politics in a Time of Multiple Crises: René Girard, Pope Francis, and the Need for Authentic Dialogue.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the Gospel: Festschrift Für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 109–26. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Taylor, Matthew. “Mensonge Mélodramatique: Triangular Desire in Sense and Sensibility.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 189–207.

Vandenberg, Kathleen M. “Mimetic Consumption of the World: Social Media and Overtourism.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 271–90. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Vinolo, Stéphane. “Baruch Spinoza.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 139–62. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Wandinger, Nikolaus. “Heilig oder Sakral: Anmerkungen zu einer wichtigen Unterscheidung.” In Politik des Evangeliums / Politics of the gospel: Festschrift für Wolfgang Palaver, edited by Wilhelm Guggenberger, Dietmar Regensburger, and Nikolaus Wandinger, 63–76. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

———. “‘No One Has Ever Seen God’: How to Imitate the Wholly Other.” In Imagining the Other: Mimetic Theory, Migration, Exclusionary Politics, and the Ambiguous Other, edited by Dietmar Regensburger and Nikolaus Wandinger, 349–66. Innsbruck: innsbruck university press, 2023.

Wilmes, Andreas. “Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 231–61. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Wrethed, Joakim. “Cancel Culture and the Trope of the Scapegoat: A Girardian Defense of the Importance of Contemplative Reading.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 29, no. 1 (2022): 15–37.

———. “The Girardian Event and the Literary Event: The Scapegoat and Revelation in Alice Munro’s ‘Runaway.’” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 31, no. 1 (2024): 53–70.

Wydra, Harald. “Niccolò Machiavelli.” In René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume 1: Philosophy, Violence, and Mimesis, edited by George A. Dunn and Andreas Wilmes, 63–91. Studies in Violence, Mimesis & Culture. Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2024.

Zimmermann, Nigel. “A Desire unto Death: The Warnings of Girard and Levinas against the Sanitisation of Euthanasia.” In Voluntary Assisted Dying, edited by Daniel J Fleming and David J Carter, 137–54. Law? Health? Justice? Canberra: ANU Press, 2022.

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