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In today’s society, a positive relation between ‘God’ and ‘civilization’ is by no means self-evident. Religious believers who want to live their lives in accordance with ‘the law of God’ are often considered a threat to civilization. To many, monotheistic religion is inherently repressive and violent. The central aim of this volume is to think of both God and civilization in a more open, space-giving way. God is seen as the One who prevents man from making an absolute claim for a relative reality, including one's religion and culture. The multifaceted relations between God and civilization are explored from systematic-theological, missiological, philosophical and ethical perspectives.

Religion and civilization. --- God. --- Metaphysics --- Misotheism --- Theism --- Civilization and religion --- Civilization --- Religion et civilisation --- Dieu

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Religion and sociology --- Religion --- Religion and civilization --- Sociologie religieuse --- Religion --- Religion et civilisation --- Philosophy --- Philosophie

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Cet essai de René Girard présente et résume les concepts clés de sa théorie : le désir mimétique, le mécanisme victimaire et la révélation judéo-chrétienne. Comparant l'histoire de Milomaki, héros des Indiens yahunas, avec la légende d'OEdipe et les textes de persécution du Moyen Âge, l'auteur démontre l'origine persécutrice de tous les mythes et l'universalité du phénomène du bouc émissaire. Pour la seule fois dans toute son oeuvre, René Girard débat ensuite avec trois anthropologues : Walter Burkert, Renato Rosaldo et Jonathan Z Smith. Cette discussion concerne le sacrifice et la domestication, mais aussi les " chasses aux têtes " et aux animaux sauvages. Répondant de façon très convaincante aux objections que soulève sa théorie, l'auteur éclaire d'un nouveau jour les origines sacrificielles de l'humanité. À l'heure où l'anthropologie connaît un regain d'intérêt, notamment dans le sillage du centenaire de Claude Lévi-Strauss, la traduction de ce texte majeur s'imposait. René Girard aura en effet remis l'anthropologie religieuse au premier plan en révélant le mécanisme victimaire au fondement de la culture. On se persuadera sans mal, en le voyant ici défendre son hypothèse, qu'elle constitue un apport scientifique essentiel.

Culture --- Religion and civilization --- Violence --- Scapegoat --- Religion et civilisation --- Bouc émissaire --- Origin --- Mythology --- Origines --- Mythologie --- Bouc émissaire --- Mythology.

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Godsdienst en beschaving --- Religion and civilization --- Religion et civilisation --- Religion and civilization. --- Islam --- Hinduism --- Religions. --- Hindouisme --- Religions --- History. --- Histoire --- Asia [South ] --- History

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The Dialectics of the Religious and the Secular: Studies on the Future of Religion contains the work of fifteen international scholars who have wrestled with the question of the relevancy, meaning, and future of religion within the context of the increasing antagonisms between the religious and secular realms of modern civil society and its globalization. Through their chosen topics in analyzing these issues in the 20th and 21st centuries, each author also indicates the possibility of mitigating if not preventing the continuation of this antagonism by historically moving toward a more reconciled and humane future global society. Contributors are: Branko Ančić, Aleksandra Baranova, Roland T. Boer, Francis Brassard, Dustin Byrd, Donald Devon III, Neven Duvnjak, Jan W. R. Fennema, Denis R. Janz, Dinka Marinović Jerolimov, Gottfried Küenzlen, Mislav Kukoč, Michael R. Ott, Rudolf J. Siebert, and Ivica Sokol.

Religion --- Religions --- Religion and civilization. --- Civilization and religion --- Civilization --- Interreligious relations --- Relations among religions --- Philosophy. --- Relations. --- Religion and civilization --- Religion et civilisation --- Philosophy --- Relations --- Philosophie