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René Girard, a French historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science, "grudgingly" praised Frazer for recognising kingly sacrifice as "a key primitive ritual", but described his interpretation of the ritual as "a grave injustice to ethnology."
- James George Frazer
- 1890
Mar 1, 2007 · Where Girard dismisses Frazer's theory of myth and ritual, Burkert assesses it—though he, too, fails to disentangle the versions of myth-ritualism.
- Robert A. Segal
- 2007
In respect of ritual, Girard answers Frazer decisively: ‘because it reproduces the founding event of all rituals the Passion is connected with every ritual on the entire planet’ (TH: 167).
Oct 20, 2017 · Girard has retorted that for Frazer the scapegoat is not a generative mechanism but merely a metaphor. Moreover, Frazer equated Christianity—which centers on its own scapegoat in the figure of Christ—with archaic religious systems, underlining their similarity without observing the difference between them, which Girard has made a ...
- Trevor Cribben Merrill
- 2017
Girard’s understanding of the unmasking of the scapegoat mechanism. Girard also argues that Jesus came, rst and foremost, to preach the Kingdom of God, which was a message of nonviolence, and represented an attempt to unmask the sacricial system itself. His mission failed, and he was crucied, which then turned out to serve as an even more central
Sir James George Frazer OM FRS FRSE FBA [1] (/ ˈ f r eɪ z ər /; 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941) was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist [2] influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
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2 days ago · Abstract. This chapter delves into the intricate interplay between René Girard’s mimetic theory and the Christian theological tradition, particularly focusing on his unique interpretation of the gospels and the concept of sacrifice. Girard, a polymath whose work spans across disciplines, brought to light the pervasive influence of mimetic ...
