The Scapegoat Rene Girard CBC Ideas

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The  Scapegoat: Rene Girard's Anthropology of Violence and  Religion. Ideas  CBC Radio 01 07 January 2002 Tonight on Ideas...Part One of a week-long series: The Scapegoat: Rene Girard's Anthropology of Violence and Religion. Writer and teacher, Girard considers the conflict between the early societal need to find a scapegoat and the Judeo-Christian tradition of the innocent victim. Find out more tonight on Ideas at 9:05 (9:35 NT) on CBC Radio One. 02 08 January 2002 Tonight on Ideas...Part Two of a week-long series: The Scapegoat: Rene Girard's Anthropology of Violence and Religion. Writer and teacher, Girard considers the conflict between the early societal need to find a scapegoat and the Judeo-Christian tradition of the innocent victim. Find out more tonight on Ideas at 9:05 (9:35 NT) on CBC Radio One. 03 09 January 2002 Tonight on Ideas...Part Three of a week-long series: The Scapegoat: Rene Girard's Anthropology of Violence and Religion. Writer and teacher, Girard considers the conflict between the early societal need to find a scapegoat and the Judeo-Christian tradition of the innocent victim. Find out more tonight on Ideas at 9:05 (9:35 NT) on CBC Radio One. 04 10 January 2002 Tonight on Ideas...Part Four of a week-long series: The Scapegoat: Rene Girard's Anthropology of Violence and Religion. Writer and teacher, Girard considers the conflict between the early societal need to find a scapegoat and the Judeo-Christian tradition of the innocent victim. Find out more tonight on Ideas at 9:05 (9:35 NT) on CBC Radio One. 05 11 January 2002 Tonight on Ideas...the conclusion of a week-long series: The Scapegoat: Rene Girard's Anthropology of Violence and Religion. Writer and teacher, Girard considers the conflict between the early societal need to find a scapegoat and the Judeo-Christian tradition of the innocent victim. Find out more tonight on Ideas at 9:05 (9:35 NT) on CBC Radio One. “Human beings, according to French thinker René Girard, are fundamentally imitative creatures. We copy each other’s desires and are in perpetual conflict with one another over the objects of our desire. In early human communities, this conflict created a permanent threat of violence and forced our ancestors to find a way to unify themselves. They chose a victim, a scapegoat, an evil one against whom the community could unite. Biblical religion, according to Girard, has attempted to overcome this historic plight. From the unjust murder of Abel by his brother Cain to the crucifixion of Christ, the Bible reveals the innocence of the victim. It is on this revelation that modern society unquietly rests. Girard’s ideas have influenced social scientists over his long career as a writer and teacher. René  Noël Théophile  Girard  (/ʒɪəˈrɑːrd/; French: [ʒiʁaʁ]; 25 December 1923 – 4 November 2015) was a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science whose work belongs to the tradition of anthropological philosophy.

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