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Editor's Note As has been past practice, the editors of Contagion continue to selectfor refereeprocesspapersfrom the annualmeetingofthe Colloquiumon Violence and Religion. But we also continue to welcome manuscripts from authors in all academic disciplines and fields of professional activity which bear on René Girard's mimetic model of human behavior and cultural organization. Future volumes willalso include asectionforNotes andComments, allowingforresponses to previous essays and discussion oftexts and issues related to interests of the journal. We wish again to express our thanks to Patricia Clemente, Administrative Secretary of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Loyola University Chicago,for her resourceful vigilance in seeing thejournal through to its timelyproduction. ...

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