Abstract
René Girard’s “we-centric” mimetic theory acknowledges embodiment in a way that Platonic, Augustinian, and Cartesian currents in Western thought do not. In this, it is in keeping with phenomenology and continental feminism, though rather estranged from the latter. The doctrine of Christ’s incarnation is embraced by Girard based on his prior convictions about the Bible revealing sacred violence and echoed in the way his method combines theology with social science.
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Garrels, Scott R., ed. Mimesis and Science: Empirical Research on Imitation and the Mimetic Theory of Culture and Religion. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2011.
Dumouchel, Paul. “Mirrors of Nature: Artificial Agents in Real Life and Virtual Worlds,” in Mimesis, Movies and Media: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred Vol 3, ed. Scott Cowdell et.al. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2015, 51–60.
Reineke, Martha. Intimate Domain: Desire, Trauma, and Mimetic Theory. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2014.
Williams, Rowan. “The Body’s Grace,” in Our Selves, Our Souls and Bodies: Sexuality and the Household of God, ed. Charles Hefling. Cambridge, MA.: Cowley, 1996, 58–68.
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Cowdell, S. (2017). Embodiment and Incarnation. In: Alison, J., Palaver, W. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53825-3_26
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