From the Editor

This issue, which combines well-known and respected Girardians with new and equally welcome contributors, continues the steady increase in the variety of venues and circumstances where mimetic theory is in play. It is a good time for The Colloquium on Violence & Religion to feel proud of the way it has served its mission of "exploring, critiquing, and developing René Girard's mimetic theory since 1990." If I were to name all the significant contributors to this mission over the years it would eat a big hole in the space reserved for our authors. But then I shouldn't extend myself into that space either, except to thank René Girard from the bottom of my heart for his gift to all of us.