Violence and the Sacred¶
Girard, R. (1977). Violence and the Sacred. La violence et le sacré.
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- Scapegoating
- The term descends from the biblical ritual of Leviticus 16, in which the sins of a community were symbolically laid on a goat that was then driven into the wilderness, a rite whose structural logic was given a general social-theoretic reading by Girard (1972) in his account of the surrogate victim.
This sourceFoundational social-theoretic reading of sacrifice and the surrogate-victim mechanism; supports the origin of the structural pattern, the compression of distributed strain into a single substitute, and the bounding of transfer to social substrates that experience collective strain.
- The term descends from the biblical ritual of Leviticus 16, in which the sins of a community were symbolically laid on a goat that was then driven into the wilderness, a rite whose structural logic was given a general social-theoretic reading by Girard (1972) in his account of the surrogate victim.
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