11 episodes
Violence & the Sacred The Cornerstone Forum
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- Society & Culture
What we know of the earliest human communities from their art, myths, and sacrificial rites have been viewed backwards through a cloud of mystification. René Girard provides a lens through which the puzzling stories of dying and rising gods are revealed retrospectively by the light cast from Golgotha as a watermark of Christ’s sacrifice.
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René Girard in Sonoma 1991
René Girard giving an informal talk with Q&A at Gil Bailie's Florilegia Institute, Sonoma, CA in 1991
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Religion and Violence
A 2004 presentation by René Girard to the Stanford University Catholic Community.
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Ethnocentrism
This is a recording of a presentation by René Girard given at the 1992 meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion held at Stanford University.
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Revenge
This is an address given by René Girard at the Center for International Security and Arms Control at Stanford University in 1993.
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Satan and the Gospels
This is an address given by René Girard at the American Academy of Religion conference held in San Francisco in 1992.
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Atonement
An address given by René Girard at the American Academy of Religion conference held in San Francisco in 1997. Professor Girard is introduced by James Williams.