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Contagion is the official journal of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, and international association of scholars who draw inspiration from René Girard's mimetic hypothesis on the relationship between violence and religion the genesis and maintenance of culture. This journal attracts essays by contributors from the fields of conflict resolution; theology, Biblical, Hebrew, and Islamic studies; social and biological science; feminism; literary studies in both classical and modern languages; polite and popular culture; art and music; film studies; philosophy; economics, psychology; ecology; pedagogy and educational theory; and rhetoric.
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Volume 24, 2017Table of Contents

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View Mimetic Euphemism and Mythology: Group Therapy, Scapegoating, and the Displacement of Disquiet
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View Human Evolution and the Single Victim Mechanism: Locating Girard's Hominization Hypothesis through Literature Survey
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View Acquisitive Imitation and the Gift-Economy: Escaping Reciprocity in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit
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ISSN | 1930-1200 |
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Print ISSN | 1075-7201 |
Launched on MUSE | 2017-08-11 |
Open Access | No |