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Books Available for Review

If you would like to review a book or provide a book for review, please contact the book review editor, Matthew Packer.

 

Books Currently Available for Review

Brian Collins, The Head Beneath the Altar: Hindu Mythology and the Critique of Sacrifice

René Girard, Resurrection from the Underground: Feodor Dostoevsky

Jean-Michel Oughourlian, Psychopolitics: Conversations with Trevor Cribben Merrill

Stefano Tomelleri, Ressentiment: Reflections on Mimetic Desire and Society

Jodok Troy, Desire and Imitation in International Politics

Duane Armitage, Philosophy’s Violent Sacred: Heidegger and Nietzsche Through Mimetic Theory

Wolfgang Palaver, Transforming the Sacred into Saintliness: Reflecting on Violence and Religion With Rene Girard

Per Bjørnar Grande, Desire: Flaubert, Proust, Fitzgerald, Miller, Lana Del Rey

Robert M. Doran, The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions, Volume One: Missions and Processions

Arpad Szakolczai and Bjørn Thomassen, From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences

Vern Redekop and Gloria Redekop, Awakening: Exploring Spirituality, Emergent Creativity, and Reconciliation

Christian Borch, Imitation, Contagion, Suggestion: On Mimesis and Society

Mark Ayyash, A Hermeneutics of Violence: A Four-Dimensional Conception

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News from @COVRscholars

Summer Seminar in LA - The Thought of René Girard: Understanding the Faith in a Secular Age July 25-31 led by @GrantAKaplan & @cribbenMerrill. Registration is open. https://t.co/vNlydHHsda

- March 4, 2021

Julia Shinnick's “Violence in the Thirteenth-Century Trouvère Pastourelle" makes a case for musical evidence of René Girard's mimetic theory in a particular genre of 13th-century Old French song & pioneers connections between mimetic theory & musicology. https://t.co/pgdFAVvtMQ

- February 1, 2021

@WolfgangPalaver: My review of Joel Hodge's book on militant jihadism: Violence in the Name of God: The Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity by Joel Hodge (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), viii + 284 pp. https://t.co/Q3nOIOJmQt @COVRscholars @CTINQUIRY @mimetictheorist

- January 29, 2021

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