Mimetic Theory and Islam - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mimetic Theory and Islam write by Michael Kirwan. This book was released on 2019-05-07. Mimetic Theory and Islam available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores the 'Mimetic Theory' of the cultural theorist René Girard and its applicability to Islamic thought and tradition. Authors critically examine Girard's assertion about the connection between group formation, religion, and 'scapegoating' violence. These insights, Girard maintained, have their source in biblical revelation. Are there parallels in other faith traditions, especially Islam? To this end, Muslim scholars and scholars of Mimetic Theory have examined the hypothesis of an 'Abrahamic Revolution.' This is the claim that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam each share in a spiritual and ethical historical 'breakthrough:' a move away from scapegoating violence, and towards a sense of justice for the innocent victim.
Toward an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence
Toward an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence write by Adnane Mokrani. This book was released on 2022-07-01. Toward an Islamic Theology of Nonviolence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This groundbreaking book offers the first systematic study of the Qur’ān and Islamic history in the light of René Girard’s mimetic theory. Girard did not deal deeply with Islam, offering only scattered hints in some interviews after the September 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. Addressing this gap in Girardian studies, Adnane Mokrani aims to develop an Islamic theology that goes beyond just war theory to adopt a radical nonviolent approach. He analyzes the Qur’ānic text and classical and modern exegetical literature, focusing on the Qur’ānic narratives, then extends his research to the history of Islam, removing the sacred character attributed to some events and human choices in order to disarm theology and dismantle the ideologies of power. This same critique is also applied to the unprecedented levels of violence in modern and contemporary history. A radical and politically committed theology of peace is needed to recover the spiritual dimension of religion that frees people from the temptations of the individual and collective ego. It is a mystical and narrative theology in dialogue with other world theologies on the future of humanity—an urgent appeal needed now more than ever.
René Girard's Mimetic Theory
René Girard's Mimetic Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook René Girard's Mimetic Theory write by Wolfgang Palaver. This book was released on 2013-01-01. René Girard's Mimetic Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A systematic introduction into the mimetic theory of the French-American literary theorist and philosophical anthropologist René Girard, this essential text explains its three main pillars (mimetic desire, the scapegoat mechanism, and the Biblical “difference”) with the help of examples from literature and philosophy. This book also offers an overview of René Girard’s life and work, showing how much mimetic theory results from existential and spiritual insights into one’s own mimetic entanglements. Furthermore it examines the broader implications of Girard’s theories, from the mimetic aspect of sovereignty and wars to the relationship between the scapegoat mechanism and the question of capital punishment. Mimetic theory is placed within the context of current cultural and political debates like the relationship between religion and modernity, terrorism, the death penalty, and gender issues. Drawing textual examples from European literature (Cervantes, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kleist, Stendhal, Storm, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Proust) and philosophy (Plato, Camus, Sartre, Lévi-Strauss, Derrida, Vattimo), Palaver uses mimetic theory to explore the themes they present. A highly accessible book, this text is complemented by bibliographical references to Girard’s widespread work and secondary literature on mimetic theory and its applications, comprising a valuable bibliographical archive that provides the reader with an overview of the development and discussion of mimetic theory until the present day.
What is “Islamic” Art?
What is “Islamic” Art? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook What is “Islamic” Art? write by Wendy M. K. Shaw. This book was released on 2019-10-10. What is “Islamic” Art? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An alternate approach to Islamic art emphasizing literary over historical contexts and reception over production in visual arts and music.
Battling to the End
Battling to the End - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Battling to the End write by René Girard. This book was released on 2009-12-15. Battling to the End available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Battling to the End René Girard engages Carl von Clausewitz (1780–1831), the Prussian military theoretician who wrote On War. Clausewitz, who has been critiqued by military strategists, political scientists, and philosophers, famously postulated that "War is the continuation of politics by other means." He also seemed to believe that governments could constrain war. Clausewitz, a firsthand witness to the Napoleonic Wars, understood the nature of modern warfare. Far from controlling violence, politics follows in war's wake: the means of war have become its ends. René Girard shows us a Clausewitz who is a fascinated witness of history's acceleration. Haunted by the French-German conflict, Clausewitz clarifies more than anyone else the development that would ravage Europe. Battling to the End pushes aside the taboo that prevents us from seeing that the apocalypse has begun. Human violence is escaping our control; today it threatens the entire planet.
