Bibliography LIII

Bibliography of Literature on the Mimetic Theory vol. LIII

by Dietmar Regensburger
University of Innsbruck

published in: Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion vol. 89 (August 2026)

Books concerning the entire work of René Girard

Burgis, Luke, ed. Be Not Conformed: Rene Girard at the Nexus of Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley. The Catholic University of America Press, 2026.

Carr, Elias. Neid, Gewalt und Sündenböcke: Einleitung zur mimetischen Theorie menschlicher Kultur von René Girard. Wiener Dom Verlag, 2025.

Chantre, Benoît, and Paul Dumouchel, eds. The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred 12. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Ebrahimian, John Babak. How Violence Works: An Introduction to Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory. Cascade Books, 2025.

Giovanzana, Davide. Performing Violence: Limits and Transformative Means in Staged Violence. Routledge, 2024.

Gontijo, Danú, and Rodrigo Álvarez. La Viralización de La Violencia. Prometeo Editorial, 2023.

Lechte, John. Violence, Image and Victim in Bataille, Agamben and Girard. Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Articles concerning the entire work of René Girard

Anspach, Mark. “Oedipus and the Evolution of the Scapegoat Hypothesis.” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 13–18. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Blass, Ethan. “Comparative Methodology and Seeing the Victim.” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 19–26. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Boland, Tom. “Plasticity, Mimesis, Transformativity: A Genealogy of Theories of Change.” In Homo Mimeticus III: Plasticity, Mimesis and Metamorphosis with Catherine Malabou, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow Verkerk, 87-108. Leuven University Press, 2025.

Bubbio, Paolo Diego. “Rethinking the Death of God through Kenotic Thought (with Hegel’s Help).” Philosophies 9, no. 3 (2024): 86.

Bullard, Laura. “The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession.” Wired, September 30, 2025.

Catanzaro, Andrea. “Convergenze Parallele? Thomas Hobbes e René Girard Tra Contratto e Sacrificio.” Storia e Politica 1 (April 2024): 22–45.

Chantre, Benoît. “Introduction: René Girard: Death and Resurrection.” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 1-10. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Chantre, Benoît, and Andrew McKenna. “A Childhood Memory of René Girard.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 1–20.

Davis, Colin. “The Cost of Being Ethical: Fiction, Violence, and Altericide.” Common Knowledge 9, no. 2 (2003): 241–53.

Fernández, Agustín Moreno. “De la problemática del sujeto al yo del deseo. De Girard a Oughourlian y Morin.” Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica 79, no. 304 (2023): 1097–124.

Ferronato, Marta. “Sacro e Politica, Con René Girard : Per Un’introduzione.” Historia Religionum, no. 1 (2025).

Frangeul Baron, Victor. “Sens et violence du sacrifice chez Adorno et Girard.” Trajectoires. Revue de la jeune recherche franco-allemande, no. 18 (avr 2025).

Galvis, Gustavo Adolfo Sanabria. “Positividad y negatividad: una comparación entre Byung Chul Han y René Girard.” Revista Filosofía UIS 24, no. 1 (2025): 123–40.

Gans, Eric. “The Human Différance.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 867 (December 2025).

Gans, Eric. “Three Kinds of Mimesis—and Two Projects.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Gans, Eric. “Understanding the Origin of Language and Humanity.” Chronicles of Love and Resentment, no. 863 (October 2025).

Godoy, Edevilson de. “Jung Mo Sung e René Girard: Diálogo entre Teologia da Libertação e Teoria Mimética.” Revista Caminhos – Revista de Ciências da Religião 23, no. 1 (2025).

Goldman, Peter. “‘The Alien Word’: Violence and Representation in Girard and Luther.” Renascence 52, no. 1 (1999): 57–74.

Haro, Vicente de. “René Girard on Job: Mimetism and Scapegoating.” In Philosophical and Theological Perspectives on the Figure of Job, edited by Nassim Bravo, Eduardo Charpenel, and Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, 158-172. Brill, 2025.

Hernández, Domingo González. “El pensamiento político ante la obra de René Girard: balance de un diálogo inconcluso.” Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica 80, no. 311 (2024): 1137–64.

Ikpe, Ibanga. “René Girard and the Myth of the First Stone.” Journal for Cultural Research 29, no. 3 (2025): 221–35.

Imran, Muzzamel Hussain. “Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory: A Key To Understanding Religion and Violence in International Relations and Politics.” Chinese Political Science Review, March 7, 2025.

Imran, Muzzamel Hussain, and Zhihong Zhai. “A Critical Review on the Mimetic Theory of René Girard: Politics, Religion, and Violence.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 52, no. 2 (2022): 362–76.

Iula, Emanuele. “Da René Girard a Daniel Pennac: Il capro espiatorio come teoria sociale.” Rassegna di teologia 66, no. 3 (2025): 347–70.

Junior, René Armand Dentz. “Perdão, memória, luto e teologia pós-moderna. Caminhos para a decolonialidade?” Teocomunicação 55, no. 1 (2025): 1–10.

Kesgin, Gözde. “Viewing Ancient Greek Tragedies in Light of Transformative Pollution: Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus, Hippolytus.” Journal of Theatre Criticism and Dramaturgy, no. 35 (2022): 121–44.

Kolff-Rodriguez, Nancy. “Letter: The Irony Is It Takes Two Frenchmen to Explain Maga.” Financial Times, May 24, 2025.

Kondakova, A. S. “Власть мимесиса и мимесис власти в производстве субъективности (The Power of Mimesis and the Mimesis of Power in the Production of Subjectivity).” Социология власти (Sociology of Power) 36, no. 4 (2025): 35–63.

Leslie, Paul. “From Philosophy To Power: The Misuse of René Girard by Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance and the American Right.” Salmagundi Magazine, Spring/Summer 2025.

Lobo, Gregory Joseph. “René Girard’s Science of Religion: The Scapegoat Mechanism, Prefrontal Synthesis, and Collective Intentionality in the Process of Hominization.” Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science 59, no. 2 (2024).

Martínez, Desiderio Parrilla. “Cristianismo y mitología en la teoría mimética de René Girard.” Proyección. Teología y Mundo Actual, no. 257 (June 2015): 175–88.

Martínez, Desiderio Parrilla. “La mímesis como filosofía de la religión.” Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica 70, no. 263 (2014): 259–76.

Martínez, Desiderio Parrilla. “Overcoming the ‘referential Nihilism’ in the Work of René Girard.” Azafea: Revista de Filosofía 17, no. 1 (2016): 175–93.

Martínez, Desiderio Parrilla. “René Girard y la teoría del doble vínculo de Palo Alto.” Revista de Filosofía 40, no. 2 (2015): 109–26.

Mertes, Klaus. “Opfermythen im Silicon Valley: René Girard und Peter Thiel.” Stimmen der Zeit 243, no. 6 (2025): 427–34.

Muñoz, Jorge Federico Márquez. “The Reception of René Girard in Mexico.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 21–38.

Murphy, Michael P. “Tinderization and Transcendence: Girard, McLuhan, and the Apocalyptic Imagination.” In Theological Discourses on Social Media, edited by Christopher B. Barnett, Clark J. Elliston, and Trevor B. Williams, 41-61. Routledge, 2025.

Palaver, Wolfgang. “René Girard.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, edited by Eugene O’Brien, online edn. Oxford University Press, June 24, 2020.

Parrilla, Desiderio. “Recepción de la «teoría mimética» de René Girard en la obra de Peter Sloterdijk.” Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica 79, no. 304 (2023): 1125–48.

Pattillo, Matthew. “Girard’s Apostasy.” Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 32 (2025): 267–88.

Peón, Juan Alberto Sucasas. “Antropología de la violencia: René Girard.” Bajo Palabra, no. 15 (December 2017): 137–47.

Perreault, Mathieu. “J.D. Vance: Le vrai héritier du philosophe catholique René Girard ?” États-Unis. La Presse, January 5, 2025.

Piven, Jerry S. “René Girard’s Revision and Misapprehension of Psychoanalysis.” International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies 22, no. 2 (2025): e70000.

Plotnitsky, Arkady. “The Destinies of Desire and Vectors of the Virtual: Structures, Machines, and Desiring Machines.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 103-112. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Savchenko, S. V., and K. A. Prokofieva. “Philosophical and Anthropological Theory of Violence by René Girard.” Anthropological Measurements of Philosophical Research, no. 26 (December 2024): 47–60.

Sosnowska, Paulina. “The Wounds of War and the Scars of Culture: Simone Weil and René Girard on the Symmetry of Violence.” Studia z Teorii Wychowania XIV, no. 2 (43) (2023): 131–45.

Ufnal, Piotr. “Czas apokalipsy: Przemoc, wojna i pragnienie mimetyczne według René Girarda.” Perspektywy Kultury 40, no. 1 (2023): 261–76.

Van Coillie, Geert. “Rethinking Violence beyond War and Peace: Anthropo-Ethics from Levinas to Girard.” International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 82, no. 3 (2021): 268–79.

Vignotto, Valentina. “Epilessia come segno di selezione vittimaria. Girard e Dostoevskij.” Enthymema, no. 35 (July 2024): 34–53.

Vinolo, Stéphane. “La Puissance Satanique de La Mimesis Chez René Girard.” Itinera 26 (2023).

Vinolo, Stéphane. “Masoquismo y sadismo en Girard y Sartre.” Revista interdisciplinar de Teoría Mimética. Xiphias Gladius, no. 5 (December 2022): 47–56.

Węc, Klaudia. “Masks and Mirrors of Subject Identity. Between the Petrification of Language and the Mimeticization of the Gaze.” Studia z Teorii Wychowania XIV, no. 2 (43) (2023): 147–59.

Zamorano, Unai Buil. “El sacrificio como origen de lo divino y lo humano en la teoría mimética de René Girard.” Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica 80, no. 311 Extra (2024): 1567–87.

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

Adams, Rebecca. “Review of ‘Mimetic Theory and Middle-Earth: Untangling Desire in Tolkien’s Legendarium’, by Matthew Distefano.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 80 (June 2024): 45–46.

Alberg, Jeremiah. “Review of ‘Persuasions of God: Inventing the Rhetoric of René Girard’, by Paul Lynch.” The European Legacy 30, no. 2 (2025): 229–31.

Anger, Violaine. “Review of ‘Naïveté du rire’, by René Girard.” Études, July 1, 2025.

Anonymus. “Review of ‘Il Miracolo Del Ridere’, by Rene Girard.” Archiviostorico, December 16, 2025.

Bartlett, Anthony. “Review of ‘C’est l’amour Qui Me Plaît et Non Les Sacrifices’, by Bernard Perret.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 86 (December 2025): 25–29.

Bartlett, Anthony. “Review of ‘James Alison and a Girardian Theology: Conversion, Theological Reflection, and Induction’, by John P. Edwards.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 85 (August 2025): 24–29.

Bartlett, Anthony. “Review of ‘René Girard: Biographie’, by Benoît Chantre.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 80 (June 2024): 28–33.

Bouhadjera, Hocine. “Un inédit de René Girard, sur le rire, paraît en février.” ActuaLitté, October 16, 2024.

Buhlmann, Urs. “Der Sündenbock. Review of ‘Neid, Gewalt und Sündenböcke: Einleitung zur mimetischen Theorie menschlicher Kultur von René Girard’, by Elias Carr.” Die Tagespost, April 24, 2026.

Cain, William E. “Review of ‘Mimetic Theory and Film’, Edited by Paolo Diego Bubbio and Chris Fleming.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 81 (February 2024): 32–33.

Cowdell, Scott. “Review of ‘Cormac McCarthy: An American Apocalypse’, by Markus Wierschem.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 80 (June 2024): 38–40.

Dawson, David. “Review of ‘René Girard and the Western Philosophical Tradition, Volume I’, Edited by Andreas Wilmes and George A. Dunn.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 82 (February 2024): 47–52.

Di Leo, Jeffrey R. “Review of ‘Alterity’, by Jean-Michel Oughourlian.” American Literary History 37, no. 2 (2025): 621–25.

Dixon, David. “Review of ‘East Timor, René Girard and Neocolonial Violence: Scapegoating as Australian Policy’, by Susan Connelly.” Australian Journal of Human Rights 31, no. 2 (2025): 236–39.

French, Nathan S. “Review of ‘Violence in the Name of God: The Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity’, by Joel Hodge.” Journal of Islamic Studies 34, no. 3 (2023): 443–47.

Gruenler, Curtis. “Review of ‘Against Identity: The Wisdom of Escaping the Self’, by Alexander Douglas.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 85 (August 2025): 30–33.

Gruenler, Curtis. “Review of ‘Mimetic Theory & Middle-Earth: Untangling Desire in Tolkien’s Legendarium’, by Matthew J. Distefano.” Mythlore 43, no. 2(146) (2025): 280–83.

Gruenler, Curtis. “Review of ‘The Brain and the Spirit’, by Gena St. David.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 82 (February 2024): 56–58.

HOM Videos. Homo Mimeticus III, by Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow Verkerk (Eds). Book Launch with Catherine Malabou. 2026. 1:16:01.

Kelly, Liam. “Review of ‘Mimetic Theory and Its Shadow: Girard, Milbank, and Ontological Violence’, by Scott Cowdell.” Irish Theological Quarterly 90, no. 1 (2025): 79–83.

Kirwan, Michael. “Review of ‘Mimetic Theory and Its Shadow: Girard, Milbank, and Ontological Violence’, by Scott Cowdell.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 80 (June 2024): 34–37.

Lacoss, AnnaLeah. “Review of ‘René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture’, edited by Ryan G. Duns and T. Derrick Witherington.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 85 (August 2025): 37–39.

Lapaque, Sébastien. “Peut-on encore rire naïvement ? La réponse inédite de René Girard (Review of ‘Naïveté du rire’, by René Girard”).” Le Point, May 4, 2025.

Lynch, Paul. “Review of ‘Modeling the Master: Luigi Giussani, René Girard and the Role of Imitation in Catholic Education’, by E. Tyler Graham.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 86 (December 2025): 30–32.

Manzini, Frédéric. “‘Naïveté du rire’, phénoménologuili de René Girard.” Philosophie Magazine, February 14, 2025.

Marrone, Gianfranco. “René Girard: il solletico della filosofia (Review of ‘Il miracolo del ridere’, by Rene Girard).” Doppiozero, December 1, 2025.

Maspero, Giulio. “Review of ‘The One by Whom Scandal Comes: Girard’s Anti-Nietzschean Prophecy’, by René Girard.” Church, Communication and Culture 11, no. 1 (2026): 140–45.

McGinnis, Reginald. “Reveiw of ‘The War That Must Not Occur’, by Jean-Pierre Dupuy.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 82 (February 2024): 45–46.

McKenna, Andrew. “Review of ‘Embodied Idolatry: A Critique of Christian Nationalism’, by Kyle Edward Haden.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 81 (February 2024): 37–40.

McKenna, Andrew. “Review of ‘How to Think about Catastrophe: Toward a Theory of Enlightened Doomsaying’, by Jean-Pierre Dupuy.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 79 (June 2024): 44–47.

McKenna, Andrew. “Review of ‘How Violence Works: An Introduction to René Girard’s Mimetic Theory’, by John Babak Ebrahimian.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 85 (August 2025): 34–36.

McKenna, Andrew. “Review of ‘The Tree of Good and Evil: Violence by the Law and against the Law’, by Charles K. Bellinger.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 80 (June 2024): 41–44.

McKenna, Andrew. “Review of ‘The Truth of Mankind: Reflections on Girardian Theory’, by Cesáreo Bandera.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 87 (March 2026): 19–21.

McKenna, Andrew. “Review of ‘The Uses of Idolatry’, by William T. Cavanaugh.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 82 (February 2024): 41–44.

Moore, Julia Robinson. “Review of ‘American Atrocity’, by Guy Lancaster.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 81 (February 2024): 34–36.

Pacioni, Marco. “René Girard, quel sorriso che si sottrae alla mimetica dell’attacco (Review of ‘Il miracolo del ridere’, by Rene Girard).” il manifesto, January 24, 2026.

Reineke, Martha. “Review of ‘Dismantled: Abusive Church Culture and the Clergy Women Who Leave’, by Lynn Horan.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 85 (August 2025): 40–43.

Reineke, Martha. “Review of ‘Shakespearean Cultures: Latin America and the Challenges of Mimesis in Non-Hegemonic Circumstances’, by João Cezar de Castro Rocha.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 86 (December 2025): 20–24.

Risé, Claudio. “René Girard aveva previsto tutto: Dio è stato sostituito dall’Altro nella società dei consumi «copiati» (Review of ‘Il desiderio di tirannia’, by René Girard).” La Verità, July 18, 2026.

Sarkar, Dhrubajyoti. “Review of ‘Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation’, by Nidesh Lawtoo.” Nesir: Journal of Literary Studies, no. 9 (October 2025): 507–10.

St. David, Gena. “Review of ‘Alterity’ by Jean-Michel Oughourlian.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 82 (February 2024): 53–55.

Taylor, Matthew. “Review of ‘Eliot’s Angels: George Eliot, René Girard, and Mimetic Desire’, by Bernadette Waterman Ward.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 79 (June 2024): 48–50.

Velthoven, Bob van. “Review of ‘Homo mimeticus’, by Nidesh Lawtoo.” Nederlands Klassiek Verbond, August 25, 2025.

Zhang, Chi. “Review of ‘Violence in the Name of God: The Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity’, by Joel Hodge.” Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression 16, no. 4 (2024): 601–3.

Interviews, Podcasts, Lectures and Films on René Girard and Mimetic Theory

Daghini, Michela. “Sociali prima di nascere. Con Vittorio Gallese e Nidesh Lawtoo.” RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera, August 8, 2026.

Davis, Oliver. Homo Mimeticus 2.0: Girard, Trump Redux, AI. Talk by Nidesh Lawtoo at UCC Friday 27th March 2026. 2026. 1:40:27.

Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden. “René Girard – Theoretiker des Begehrens und der Gewalt. Im Gespräch mit Wolfgang Palaver und Philipp Felsch.” Theorien zur Praxis – Philosophische Gespräche. Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, 2026. 1h48.

HOM Videos. TEDx: A Mirror for the Future by Nidesh Lawtoo. 2025. 17:59.

HOM Videos. The Case of Thiel: Diagnosed by Mimetic Studies, byNidesh Lawtoo. 2026. 4:29.

HOM Videos. The Case of Thiel, Part I: Thiel Avec Girard: From Mimetic Theory to Facebook, by Nidesh Lawtoo. 2026. 8:41.

HOM Videos. The Case of Thiel, Part II: Thiel & (New) Fascism: From Trump to J. D. Vance, by Nidesh Lawtoo. 2026. 15:53.

HOM Videos. The Case of Thiel, Part III: Thiel & the Antichrist: The Straussian Moment, by Nidesh Lawtoo. 2026. 15:43.

Klingen, Henning. “Warum spricht Peter Thiel über die Apokalypse und den Antichrist? Ein Gespräch mit Wolfgang Palaver und Alexander Filipovic.” Diesseits von Eden, December 19, 2025.

Lawtoo, Nidesh, and Valeria Maggiore. “The Homo Mimeticus and the Need for a Mimetic Turn. Interview with Nidesh Lawtoo.” Itinera 26 (2023).

ZINcentraal. Peter Thiel, the Antichrist, and the End Times: A Lecture by Wolfgang Palaver. 2026. 13:05.

Books with references to René Girard

Barnett, Christopher B. Kierkegaard, Statecraft and Political Theology. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Beguš, Nina. Artificial Humanities: A Fictional Perspective on Language in AI. University of Michigan Press, 2025.

Beltramini, Enrico. Sacred Reality, Digital Simulation: Ritual Form in Virtual Spaces. New Approaches to the Scientific Study of Religion 19. Springer Cham, 2025.

Bilsky, Leora Yedida. Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial. University of Michigan Press, 2025.

Blaive, Muriel. Pandemic Power. The Covid Response and the Erosion of Democracy – A Liberal Critique. CEU Press Perspectives. Central European University Press, 2025.

Broggi, Alicia. J. M. Coetzee and Christianity. New Horizons in Contemporary Writing. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Campbell, Andrew P. One for the Other: Engaging with Nonviolent Atonement Theology. Foreword by Stephen N. Williams. Analyzing Theology Series. Cascade Books, 2025.

Clarke, Patrick D. Petite Nation, Grand Dérangement: Le Mythe Acadien à l’épreuve de l’histoire (1847-2013). University of Ottawa Press, 2026.

Derby, Lauren. Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands. Duke University Press, 2025.

Fakhro, Dena. Should Blood Blend with Milk. Brill, 2025.

Falque, Emmanuel, and George Hughes. The Flesh of God. Fordham University Press, 2026.

Field, Laura K. Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right. Princeton University Press, 2025.

Franks, Angela. Body and Identity: A History of the Empty Self. University of Notre Dame Press, 2025.

Gala, Candelas. La Emboscada Postpoética de Agustín Fernández Mallo: Física, Cognición, Contemporaneidad, Entropía. Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures. Purdue University Press, 2025.

Grimm, Jürgen. Weltbildbrüche – zwischen Apokalypseerwartung und Gewalt: Kognitive und affektive Grundlagen der Radikalisierung. Ein Dialog über Anomalien des Zeitgeistes. Springer Fachmedien, 2026.

Hancock, Ralph C. Love and Virtue in a Secular Age: Christianity, Modernity, and the Human Good. University of Notre Dame Press, 2026.

Hayes, Adam S. Irrational Together: The Social Forces That Invisibly Shape Our Economic Behavior. University of Chicago Press, 2025.

Hobi, Emil Lukas Martin. Die kosmische Dimension des christlichen Heilsmysteriums, unter Berücksichtigung der Möglichkeit extraterrestrischen intelligenten Lebens. Dissertation, Universität Innsbruck, 2025.

Hren, Joshua. Faith in the Furnace of Doubt: Dana Gioia’s Poetics of Belief. The Catholic University of America Press, 2025.

Jacoby, Tim. Islam and the Islamic State. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Johnson, Dru. “Ritual in the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion, edited by John Barton. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Kaftanski, Wojciech. Kierkegaard, Mimesis, and Modernity: A Study of Imitation, Existence, and Affect. Routledge, 2024.

King, Derek S. Theological Attention. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Kitch, Aaron. Shakespeare’s Theater of Nature: Science, Religion, and the Orders of Mimesis in Early Modern Europe. Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2025.

Konya, Nazli. Inappropriable Force: The Gezi Protests and the Politics of Refusal. Fordham University Press, 2026.

Kovacs, Teresa. Theater of the Void: Plasticity, Hauntology, and Nuclear Blast. Cornell University Press, 2025.

Krys, Svitlana, and Maryna Romanets. Russo-Soviet Imperialist Hauntings: Neo-Gothic Geographies in Central and Eastern Europe since 1989. Manchester University Press, 2026.

Kühn, Rolf. Kultur als Unmittelbarkeit des Lebens. Das Bild vom Menschen und die Ordnung der Gesellschaft. Springer VS Wiesbaden, 2025.

Lenz, Anna. ‘Als wären wir geschichtslos‘: Das Geschichtstheater bei Elfriede Jelinek. Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft. J.B. Metzler, 2025.

Madson, Michael J. The Rise and Fall of Original OxyContin: A Rhetorical Study of Blame, Scapegoating, and Our Unrelieved Pain. Oxford University Press, 2026.

McCann, Bryan J. The Bundy Archive: Genealogies of White Masculinity. University Press of Mississippi, 2026.

McInerney, Kerry. Bodies at Their Limits: Rethinking Political Violence through Hunger Strikes. Oxford University Press, 2026.

Meyer-Lee, Robert J. Reading Geoffrey Chaucer: An Introduction. Routledge, 2025.

Michelakis, Pantelis. Encounters with the Plague in Homer, Sophocles, and Thucydides. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Oviedo, Lluis. The Believing Christian: Theology’s New Opportunities. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2025.

Reed, Justin Michael. The Injustice of Noah’s Curse. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Szakolczai, Janos Mark. Onlife Criminology: Virtual Crimes and Real Harms. Policy Press, 2025.

Wucherer-Huldenfeld, Karl A. Philosophische Theologie im Umbruch, Dritter Band: Wegbahnungen. Notwendigkeit, Möglichkeit und Sinn eines phänomenologischen Aufweisens des ‘Daseins’ Gottes aus ursprünglicher Erfahrung. Zur Methodologie und Logik philosophischer Theologie. Böhlau Wien, 2025.

Articles with references to René Girard

Admirand, Peter. “Sacrificial Love (Of Cyborgs, Saviors, and Driller, a Real Robot Killer) in the Comics ‘Descender’ and ‘Ascender.’” Humanities 14, no. 4 (2025): 91.

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Sanders, Jennifer. “Lonergan’s Theology of Prayer: The Cross, Historical Recovery, and St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises.” Theological Studies 86, no. 4 (2025): 646–71.

Sarafidou, Katerina. “Review of ‘Integrating Shadow: Authentic Being in the World’, by Ann Casement.” Journal of Analytical Psychology 71, no. 1 (2026): 221–23.

Schaeferling, Kristian. “Negative Plasticity and the Indifference of the Body.” In Homo Mimeticus III: Plasticity, Mimesis and Metamorphosis with Catherine Malabou, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow Verkerk, 129-150. Leuven University Press, 2025.

Schnekloth, Clint. “The Alt-Right Has Read the Same Books I Have.” Lutheran Confessions, April 29, 2026.

Scott, Megan C. “To Disclose the Divine: A Phenomenological Look at Janz’s The Presentation in the Temple.” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 28, no. 1 (2025): 151–58.

Seibel, Selina. “Duellbühnen und Bühnenduelle im 17. Jahrhundert – Pierre Corneilles rhetorische Duellhelden.” In Der Dialog als Duell: Rhetorische Duelle im Werk Pierre Corneilles, edited by Selina Seibel, 1-17. J.B. Metzler, 2025.

Semlali, Mohamed. “Le drame du migrant dans ‘Cannibales’ de Mahi Binebine: anthropophagie, anthropémie et autophagie.” French Cultural Studies 36, no. 2 (2025): 97–112.

Semwaza, Francis. “Albinism in Tanzania: A Ritual Politics of Silence, Fear, and Subservience.” Religions 16, no. 7 (2025): 846.

Shabalina, Anastasiia, and Andrzej Klawiter. “Rethinking Lawson and McCauley: The Return of Beliefs into Ritual Form Hypothesis.” Studia Religiologica 2025, no. Tom 58, Numer 1 (2025): 1–22.

Shalaby, Manal Mahmoud. “Reality through the Mythical Glass: The Myth of Now and the Nowness of Myth in Muḥammad Rabīʿ’s ʿUṭārid.” Journal of Arabic Literature 56, nos. 3–4 (2025): 367–89.

Shevtsov, Sergii P. “Borders of Transgression: Violence of Norms and Violence of Violations.” Human Affairs 36, no. 2 (2026): 173–88.

Shi, Yaxin. “Strangers, Scapegoats and State Failures: Migration Anxieties in Christopher Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta.” Partial Answers: Journal of Literature and the History of Ideas 24, no. 2 (2026): 221–42.

Smith, M. L. R., and Andrew T. H. Tan. “Virtue and Violence: The Strategic Logic Behind the Reemergence of Left-Wing Terrorism.” Studies in Conflict & Terrorism (February 2026): 1–26.

Solevåg, Anna Rebecca. “Pestens ringvirkninger: Epidemisk diskurs i antikken og Det nye testamentet.” Teologisk tidsskrift 14, no. 1 (2025): 34–47.

Song, Wenlong, and Bo Pang. “Trauma and Repression: Post-Orientalist Narratives in French Media Discourse on Muslim Immigrants.” Comparative Migration Studies 14, no. 1 (2026): 45.

Stanar, Dragan. “Soldiers in War as Homo Sacer.” Journal of Military Ethics 24, no. 1 (2025): 34–46.

Stolz, Benjamin. “Der Peter-Thiel-Erklärer wider Willen. Der Friedensforscher und Theologe Wolfgang Palaver.” Die Presse, September 12, 2025.

Susin, Luiz Carlos. “The Agony of Liberation Theology.” Religions 16, no. 7 (2025): 852.

Tagliapietra, Claudio. “Doing Theology Creatively in a Scientific Age: Tradition, Reflexivity, and Second-Order Cybernetics.” Religions 17, no. 2 (2026): 242.

Tang, Xiaoyan. “From Beheaded Queen to Martyr: An Exploration of the Reshaping of Historical Memory of the Revolution through the Evolution of the Image of Marie Antoinette.” Chinese Studies in History 58, no. 4 (2025): 316–35.

Thiede, Barbara. “Masculinity, Homoeroticism, Transness, and Yhwh: When Biblical Scholars Attempt to Rehabilitate a Violent God.” Religions 17, no. 2 (2026): 217.

Tolchinsky, Daniela. “Ethics for Scapegoats – The Problem with Levinas’s Universalization of Judaism.” Political Theology (February 2026): 1–22.

Tóth, Barbara. “Abendessen mit Milliardär Peter Thiel: ‘Wer sagt ihm die Wahrheit ins Gesicht?’.” Falter, September 9, 2025.

Tóth, Barbara. “Tech & Religion: Peter Thiels geheimer Besuch an der Uni Innsbruck.” Falter, September 24, 2025.

Tratnik, Polona. “Saint George, the Dragon Slayer: Sacralized Violence and the Allegorical Union of Sacred and Secular Power.” ACTA HISTRIAE 33, no. 4 (2025): 617–68.

Valencia, Felipe. “The Rape-Revenge Plot as a Reading of María de Zayas and Ana Caro de Mallén in Herminia Luque’s ‘Amar Tanta Belleza’ (2015).” Revista Hispánica Moderna 79, no. 1 (2026): 89–106.

Varona, Rubén. “Imaginarios de la corrupción: Sevilla a través de tres personajes de la novela El oro del rey de Arturo Pérez-Reverte.” La Palabra, no. 51 (August 2025): e18225–e18225.

Vasilijević, Nikola. “Soundtrack of Dissent: Sonic Practices in the 2024/25 Serbian Protests.” Filozofija i Društvo/Philosophy and Society 37, no. 1 (2026): 77–98.

Vladiv-Glover, Slobodanka. “Dostoevsky in the World Today.” Studies in East European Thought 77, no. 5 (2025): 783–90.

Vveinhardt, Jolita, and Mykolas Deikus. “Synderesis vs. Consequentialism and Utilitarianism in Workplace Bullying Prevention.” Social Inclusion 13, no. 0 (2025).

Wark, McKenzie. “Miss Destiny.” Critical Inquiry 52, no. 4 (2026): 752–60.

Wartinger, Gabriel. “Benjamin’s Great Criminal, a Plastic Mime.” In Homo Mimeticus III: Plasticity, Mimesis and Metamorphosis with Catherine Malabou, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow Verkerk, 153-170. Leuven University Press, 2025.

Whalon, Pierre W. “The Challenges of Translating Liturgies.” In The Oxford Handbook of the Book of Common Prayer, edited by Ruth A. Meyers, Luiz Carlos Teixeira Coelho, and Paul F. Bradshaw, 117–127. Oxford University Press, 2026.

Williams, Linda. “The Fortunes of Melodrama in France and America; or, Why Melodrama Is Still Important.” In Melodrama as Provocateur, edited by Christine Gledhill, Laura Horak, and Elisabeth R. Anker, 15-62. Duke University Press, 2026.

Williams, Tyler M. “Neuroliterature and the Example.” In Homo Mimeticus III: Plasticity, Mimesis and Metamorphosis with Catherine Malabou, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow Verkerk, 251-272. Leuven University Press, 2025.

Wistrom, Eric. “Affective Facts and Politics of Enmity: Fracturing the Looking Glass of Social (Re)Presentation in Y.B.’s Allah Superstar (2003).” In Space, Affect, Memory, edited by Fernando Cabo Aseguinolaza and Tomás Espino Barrera, 145-168. Literary Geographies in Transnational and Transdisciplinary Comparison. UCL Press, 2025.

Wistrom, Eric. “Third Space and Hospitality: Modal Intertextuality and the Threshold of the Unhomely in Kamel Daoud’s Zabor, Ou Les Psaumes (2017).” In Hosts, Hospitals and Hospitalities, edited by Susana Araújo, Catarina Nunes de Almeida, and Santiago Pérez Isasi, 145-162. Narratives of (in)Hospitality in Literature, Culture and the Arts. UCL Press, 2026.

Wyly, Elvin. “Revanchist Noösphere Frontiers.” Dialogues in Urban Research 4, no. 2 (2026): 163–78.

Yaakov, Reut Ben. “Canonicity Spaces: Nation, Translation and Imagination.” Hebrew Studies 66 (2025): 187–99.

Yagüe-Pasamón, Sergio. “Digital Mythic Genealogies in Patriarchal Anglophone Horror Narratives: Feminine Hybris and Wiki-Oracle Nemesis in Annora Petrova Creepypasta.” Amaltea. Revista de Mitocrítica 18 (May 2026): e107708–e107708.

Yu, Li, and Jin Zhang. “The Spiritual in the Secular: Transcultural Encounters from Ibsen to Chinese Modern Drama.” Religions 17, no. 2 (2026): 171.

Yurchak, Alexei. “Tactility of the Sacred: Lenin in the Image.” Representations 171, no. 1 (2025): 96–128.

Zagzebski, Linda Trinkaus. “Exemplarist Moral Theory: Recent Developments and Replies to Objections.” The Journal of Value Inquiry 60, no. 1 (2026): 163–80.

Zenkin, Sergey. “Semiosis and Mimesis.” In Homo Mimeticus III: Plasticity, Mimesis and Metamorphosis with Catherine Malabou, edited by Nidesh Lawtoo and Willow Verkerk, 237-250. Leuven University Press, 2025.

Zhang, Hao, and Hua Cai. “The Wooded Mountains, Ancestral Spirits and Community: Yi Religious Ecology in the ‘ꑭꁮ’ (Xiō Bū) Ritual.” Religions 17, no. 2 (2026): 143.

Zhang, Shiyi, Zengyu Li, and Xuhua Chen. “Cultural Identity and Virtual Consumption in the Mimetic Homeland: A Case Study of Chinese Generation Z Mobile Game Players.” Social Sciences 14, no. 6 (2025): 362.

Zoettl, Peter Anton. “Mortal Doubles: Youth, Crime and the Police in Brazil.” Conflict and Society. Conflict and Society 11, no. 1 (2025): 45–62.

Books applying the mimetic theory

Alison, Rev James. You Can, If You Want To: Navigating Christian Faith, Conscience, and Matters LGBTQ+. Bloomsbury Continuum, 2025.

Ayelotan, Claire P. Yoruba Pentecostalism and Child Witchcraft Accusations. University of Rochester Press, 2025.

Bartlett, Anthony. Love’s Entanglement: God as Nonviolent Relation and How That Brings the World to Peace. Foreword by Aaron Pycroft. Cascade Books, 2026.

Casement, Ann. Integrating Shadow: Authentic Being in the World. Karnac Books, 2025.

Chilton, Bruce D. Aramaic Jesus: Tradition, Identity, and Christianity’s Mother Tongue. Baylor University Press, 2025.

De Luca, Raymond Scott. And the Cow Burned: Animals and Philosophy in the Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky. Indiana University Press, 2026.

Engelberg, Jacob. Cinemas of Bisexual Transgression. Duke University Press, 2026.

Gates, Thomas Jay. Turning Toward the Victim: The Bible, Sacred Violence, and the End of Scapegoating in Quaker Perspective. Wipf and Stock, 2025.

Girard, René. Il desiderio di tirannia. Translated by Elena Muceni. Minima. Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2026.

Girard, René. Il miracolo del ridere. Prefazione di Benoît Chantre. Edited by Raffaello Cortina. Minima. Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2025.

Girard, René. Le désir de tyrannie: Textes présentés et commentés par Benoît Chantre. Grasset, 2026.

Girard, René. Naïveté du rire: Inédit – Préface, édition et notes par Benoît Chantre. Edited by Benoît Chantre. GRASSET, 2025.

Hinterleitner, Markus. Blaming Bureaucracy: Reckoning with a Problematic Political Activity. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Kuzma, Joseph D. CRUX: Radical Philosophy and the Scandal of the Cross. Cascade Books, 2025.

Lawtoo, Nidesh, and Willow Verkerk, eds. Homo Mimeticus III: Plasticity, Mimesis and Metamorphosis with Catherine Malabou. Leuven University Press, 2025.

Marcel, Mary. The Architecture of Blame: The End of Victimage and the Beginning of Justice. Lexington Books, 2024.

Mulder, Frank. Hyperreality: How Our Tools Came To Control Us. Resource Publications, 2021.

Perret, Bernard. C’est l’amour qui me plaît. Salvator, 2025.

Pigneri, Dominic (Author). Scapegoat and Lamb of God: The Incarnation in Raymund Schwager’s Soteriology. Dissertations and Theses. Catholic University of America. The Catholic University of America, 2025.

Pycroft, Aaron. René Girard and Criminal Justice: Demythologizing the Victim. Palgrave Pioneers in Criminology. Palgrave Macmillan Cham, 2025.

Rautz, Günther. Zivilreligiöse Identität in der Europäischen Union im Wechselspiel zwischen Einheit und Vielfalt: Konnexion als Ausweg aus der mimetischen Identitätskrise. Minderheiten und Autonomien 36. Peter Lang, 2026.

Roscoe, Philip. What Are Markets For? Bristol University Press, 2026.

Ryba, Thomas, and Sandor Goodhart, eds. Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred 13. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Articles applying the mimetic theory

Aboujaoude, Elias. “Beyond ‘Toxicity’: Rethinking Rage, Rivalry, and Regulation in Online Games: Commentary to the Debate ‘Taxonomy of Toxic Behaviors in Multiplayer Gaming Environments.’” Journal of Behavioral Addictions 1, no. aop (2026).

Adam Matei, Sorin. “Can Artificial Intelligence Machines Desire?: Of Course, They Do, and That’s Why We Need to Teach Them the Golden Rule.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 21-24. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Alberg, Jeremiah. “A Response to Pablo Bandera.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 87-90. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Alfonzo, Bruno. “Agustín de Hipona y el deseo mimético: Una interpretación del episodio del robo de las peras (Conf. II, IV 9).” Patristica et Mediævalia 43, no. 2 (2022): 5–24.

Alison, James. “Humility: A Loser’s Virtue, the Route to Reality, or Both?” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 63–70. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Almanzar, Jordan. “Those Who Have Eyes to See The Divine Origins of the Modern Plot Twist.” In René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture, edited by Ryan G. Duns, 57–70. Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021.

Almeida Jr., Antônio Ribeiro de, and Antônio A. S. Zuin. “O trote como crise sacrificial na universidade: a violência fora de controle.” Pro-Posições 35 (2024): e2024c0904BR.

Anspach, Mark R. “A Response to Lefteri Tsoukalas.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 61-62. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Anspach, Mark R. “On Undifferentiation in the Gaza War: Some Thoughts in Reply to Phillip Bodrock.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 79 (June 2024): 18–21.

Anspach, Mark R. “‘The Force of Destiny’ and (Un)Thinking Machines: Verdi’s Revenge Opera Demystified by Diderot.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 217-220. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Arcuri, Fabrizio. “The Manosphere: A Case of Mimetic Resentment.” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 169–178. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Azou, Pierre. “Emmanuel Macron et Éric Zemmour Entre Roman et Politique: Parcours Croisé.” Modern & Contemporary France 32, no. 3 (2024): 361–73.

Bajzek, Brian. “Mimesis, ‘Mean Girls’, and the Culture Creating Them: Tina Fey’s Interrogation of the Teen Comedy.” In René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture, edited by Ryan G. Duns, 1-12. Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021.

Baleng, Godfrey T. “Just War Theory and Scapegoat Mechanism: An Analysis of Missio Dei and Social Order.” HTS Teologiese Studies 81, no. 1 (2025).

Bandera, Pablo. “Autonomous Robots: The Model/Rival of the Unhuman.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 77-86. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Bartlett, Anthony. “AI: Apocalyptic Intelligence.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 209-216. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Belmonte, Miguel Ángel. “‘Galeotto fu’l libro e chi lo scrisse’: la literatura como camino al infierno.” Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica 79, no. 305 (2023): 1643–55.

Bijelić, Marijana. “Granice muškog identiteta i prekoračenja patrijarhalnog poretka u pripovijesti Alkar Dinka Šimunovića i romanu Đuka Begović Ivana Kozarca.” Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, no. 28 (July 2025): 53–65.

Blečić, Ivan, and Paul Dumouchel. “Toward Modeling Mimetic Theory: An Agent-Based Simulation.” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 179–190. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Bockschweiger, Birgit. “Christa Wolfs ‘Medea. Stimmen’: Eine Auseinandersetzung mit Flucht, Rassismus und Fremdheit.” Berliner Debatte Initial: Zeitschrift für socialwissenschaftlichen Diskurs 37, no. 1 (2026): 82–96.

Bodrock, Phillip. “Hamas, Netanyahu and Putin: Reflections on Mark Anspach’s Letter from the Negev.” The Bulletin of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion 79 (June 2024): 15–17.

Bower, Thad. “Sacred Violence in Marvell’s ‘Horatian Ode.’” Renascence 52, no. 1 (1999): 75–88.

Brake, Matthew. “Unmasking the Theological Shell: A Girardian Reading of Jonathan Hickman’s ‘Secret Wars.’” In René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture, edited by Ryan G. Duns, 155–168. Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021.

Brighi, Elisabetta. “Toward a Mimetic and International Political Theory of Terrorism?” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 89–96. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Brown, George Hardin. “Royal and Ecclesiastical Rivalries in Bede’s History.” Renascence 52, no. 1 (1999): 19–33.

Bubbio, Paolo Diego. “From the Hermeneutic of Violence to Redemption: ‘The 100’ and Mimetic Theory.” In René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture, edited by Ryan G. Duns, 87–102. Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021.

Burningham, Bruce R. “Trembling Curiosity: Sex and Desire in ‘El Curioso Impertinente’ and ‘Carne Trémula.’” Humanities 14, no. 2 (2025): 33.

Buts, Jan, and Saliha Özçelik. “The Translator and the Scapegoat: On Mimetic Desire and Intercultural Mediation.” Encounters in Translation, no. 1 (June 2024).

Buys, Erik. “‘Star Wars’: Between Myth and Gospel.” In René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture, edited by Ryan G. Duns, 13–26. Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021.

Calabrese, Joseph. “Psychopharmacological Purity Doctrines and the Inertia of Cruelty: Using Mary Douglas and Rene Girard to Understand the War on Drugs.” In Matter out of Place: Anthropological Explorations of Bodies, Dirt and Morality, edited by Rebecca Lynch, Joseph R. Calabrese, and Roland Littlewood, 108-133. Berghahn, 2025.

Campos, Valeria. “A quienes nadie vengará: Sobre América ilegible de José Ruiz.” Palabra y Razón, no. 26 (December 2024): 142–51.

Carnevali, Barbara. “Deviated Transcendence: Girard’s Legacy for Social Philosophy.” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 71–80. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Carr, Elias. “‘We Lepers’: The Mimetic Saint According to Gavan Daws’s Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai.” In Be Not Conformed: Rene Girard at the Nexus of Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley, edited by Luke Burgis, 157-172. The Catholic University of America Press, 2026.

Carrington, Michal J. “Sacrifice and Violence in the Marketplace.” Marketing Theory 22, no. 4 (2022): 601–21.

Casale, Gino. “Learning as Mediated Desire: René Girard and the Anthropological Foundations of Educational Theory.” Education Sciences 16, no. 6 (2026): 924.

Chauchois, Alexis L. “‘Panorama’ de Lilia Hassaine: la Transparence comme tragédie de l’injustice.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 30, no. 2 (2026): 365–79.

Checchi, Tania. “The Mimetic Horizons of Time and Desire: A Phenomenological and Sci-Fi Approach.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 183-192. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Cork, Alan. “Mimetic Theory and L’Arche.” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 125–134. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Cornille, Jean-Louis. “Éc(h)o-textes : Man Grove et la Ville-Rhizome.” Relief – Revue électronique de littérature 16, no. 1 (2022): 166–76.

Cowdell, Scott. “Mimetic Theory Research into AI: Positions and Prospects.” In Desiring Machines : Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 313-322. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Cyriac, Zacharias, and M. Mary Jayanthi. “Archvillain or Scapegoat: René Girard Visits the Abbey of ‘The Name of the Rose’.” Forum Italicum, April 21, 2026, 00145858261431819.

De Keukelaere, Simon. “Does Reading Girard Make Your Life Worse? Mimetic Desire, Literature, and the Desire for God.” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 45–50. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Dee, Katherine. “The Illusions of Novelty: Belle Delphine and the Eternal Return of Online Fame.” In Be Not Conformed: Rene Girard at the Nexus of Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley, edited by Luke Burgis. The Catholic University of America Press, 2026.

Delecroix, Vincent. “Founding Cain.” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 81–88. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Díaz, Rodiel Rodríguez, Analia Elizabeth Leite Méndez, and Mario Hernán López Becerra. “Pedagogía del deseo mimético: rutas reflexivas para una cultura de paz en los escenarios educativos.” Latinoamericana de Estudios Educativos 19, no. 2 (2023): 175–97.

Doda-Wyszyńska, Agnieszka. “The Implosion of Mimetism: Population Management through Anxiety Generation.” Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 9, no. 1 (2025): 114–33.

Dugast, Romane. “La Sibylle chez Chloé Delaume, icône de la violence dans la littérature de langue française.” Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 30, no. 1 (2026): 203–12.

Dumouchel, Paul. “Desiring Machines: Machines That Are Desired and Machines That Desire.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 27-36. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Dunn, George. “Can Robots Be Good Friends? Social Robots and Social Virtues.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Dunn, George A. “The Pleasures and Perils of Revenge: ‘Sons of Anarchy’ and Girard.” In René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture, edited by Ryan G. Duns, 121–140. Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021.

Duns, Ryan G. “Gazing into a Mirror: Watching ‘Hoarders’ with Girard.” In René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture, edited by Ryan G. Duns, 71–86. Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021.

Duns, Ryan G. “Introduction René Girard and Mimetic Theory—the Devil Is in the Details . . . and in Prada.” In René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture, edited by Ryan G. Duns, ix–xxvi. Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021.

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. “The Looming Nuclear War.” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 119–124. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Dupuy, Jean-Pierre. “The Philosophic Foundations of Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 41-50. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Duyndam, Joachim. “A Response to Johann Rossouw.” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 129-132. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Ebrahimian, John Babak. “‘Blade Runner’: When Men Become Gods, Who Wins?” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 245-252. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Edell, Celia. “Antitransgender Legislation as Scapegoating.” Feminist Philosophy Quarterly 12, no. 1 (2026).

Egito, Tinatin Do. “К Феномену Сакрального Насилия в Секулярном Искусстве Сергея Эйзенштейна: Образы Ада и Рая в «революционной Трилогии» (On the Phenomenon of Sacred Violence in Sergei Eisenstein’s Secular Art: The Images of Heaven and Hell in the Revolutionary Trilogy).” Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского Гуманитарного Университета: Серия I. Богословие, Философия (Vestnik Pravoslavnogo Sviato-Tikhonovskogo Gumanitarnogo Universiteta. Seriia I : Bogoslovie. Filosofiia. Religiovedenie) 116, no. 116 (2024): 89–113.

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Falantin, Flavien. “Une maladie textuellement transmissible? Le Bovarysme: histoire politique d’une pathologie littéraire.” Anales de Filología Francesa 33 (December 2025).

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Wandinger, Nikolaus. “Desires and Mediations between Creator and Created.” In Desiring Machines : Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 253-262. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Wexler, Ben. “Mimetic Violence and Sacred Performance in Charlotte Salomon’s `Leben? Oder Theater?’.” Naharaim 20, no. 1 (2026): 107–38.

Wilmes, Andreas. “Violence: Sketch for a History of Ideas.” In The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World, edited by Benoît Chantre and Paul Dumouchel, 109–118. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Witherington, T. Derrick. “From #MeToo to #WeToo: Mimetic Ecclesiology and the Possibility of Structural Reform.” In René Girard, Theology, and Pop Culture, edited by Ryan G. Duns, 217–230. Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021.

Wright, Susan. “Artificial Intelligence and Mimetic Bondage in Spike Jonze’s ‘Her.’” In Desiring Machines: Mimetic Theory and Artificial Intelligence in Technology, Philosophy, Film, and Fiction, edited by Sandor Goodhart and Thomas Ryba, 235-244. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Yilmaz, Hakan. “The Mimetic Origins of Destructive Anger in Jean Rhys’s ‘Wide Sargasso Sea.’” In Complexities of Anger: Literary and Cultural Perspectives, edited by Aytül Özüm, 175–186. Bloomsbury Academic, 2026.

Yingling, Owen. “Waiting for Girard: Rivalry, Apocalypse, and Return.” In Be Not Conformed: Rene Girard at the Nexus of Athens, Jerusalem, and Silicon Valley, edited by Luke Burgis. The Catholic University of America Press, 2026.

Zournazi, Mary. “The Double Bind: Gaslighting, Cultural Violence and the Post COVID Experience.” In Long COVID and Society: International Perspectives, edited by Deborah Lupton, 249-263. Palgrave Macmillan Singapore, 2025.

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