Violence, Desire, And The Sacred, Volume 2: Ren... May 2026

The contributors to this volume don’t just echo Girard; they challenge and expand his work. They ask whether the "revelation" of the scapegoat mechanism—the Christian insight that the victim is innocent—has truly freed us from violence, or if it has simply made our conflicts more desperate as we lose the ancient tools used to end them.

A look at how contemporary politics and media have reinvented the sacrificial victim, often under the guise of justice or ideological purity. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 2: Ren...

The volume bridges the gap between Girard’s intuitive anthropology and the empirical findings of history and sociology, testing whether his theories hold up under the weight of historical data. The contributors to this volume don’t just echo