Undoing the Sacrificial Matrix
This is in response to a comment on the Achan post. The question was: Does your spin on the Achan story depend on the notion that there must have been other “...
Category: Atonement
Achan and the “Logic of Violence”
Just to address, in part, some of the very welcome comments appearing on this blog… The logic of violence is truly a hard thing to break through. That the...
Starbucks Log – Weapons of Mass Construction
"It’s going to be a bad week.", was the comment that I inadvertently eavesdropped on as I settled into my chair beside the eight-foot windows...
Rene Girard
Rene Girard is one of those intrepid anthropologists who in spite of the desertion of much of the anthropological scientific community continued to follow the r...