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RENÉ GIRARD AND SECULAR MODERNITYCHRIST, CULTURE, AND CRISIS

SCOT T COWDELL

SCOTT COWDELL is associate professor and research fellow in public and contextual theology at Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia, and canon theologian of the Canberra-Goulburn Anglican Diocese. He is author and editor of a number of books, including Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines (edited with Chris Fleming and Joel Hodge).

“Scott Cowdell’s book is the first comprehensive study of modernity and secularity in René Girard’s thought. Cowdell brings Girard’s theory into a fruitful dialogue with leading approaches on secularization like those of Max Weber, Hans Blumenberg, Peter Berger, and Charles Taylor. Scholars and students of theology, philosophy, and sociology will benefit from this wide-ranging overview of the relationship between religion, modernity, and secularization.” —Wolfgang Palaver, Institute of Systematic Theology, University of Innsbruck

“In a stunning analysis, Cowdell shows that Girard’s sustained intellectual pursuit, which began in the 1960s with his mimetic analysis of modern realist fiction, has always been about the (Durkheimian) religiosity of the modern and postmodern social condition, even when it has dealt explicitly with the religious origins of antique culture. Cowdell demonstrates the ‘highly explanatory and predictive’ quality of Girard’s cultural anthropology, within which the ‘secular’ does not (and indeed cannot) escape the ‘religious.’ This is a powerful book.” —ann W. astell, University of Notre Dame

“Scott Cowdell is one of the most interesting theological voices of his generation. The themes in Cowdell’s work are always cosmic and vast in scope. This is a remarkable reading of our contemporary situation through the lens of René Girard. Accurate, informed, and illuminating, Cowdell has written a fabulous book. For the person needing a way into Girard and for the person who is already using Girard’s work, Cowdell brings out the implications of Girard for the moment in which we live. An absolutely essential addition to your personal library.” —the very reverend dr. Ian MarkhaM, Virginia Theological Seminary

The first systematic interpretation of René Girard’s controversial approach to secular modernity.

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