This volume brings together two groups engaged with understanding
the relationships between religion and violence. The first group
consists of scholars of the mimetic theory of René Girard, for
whom human violence is rooted in the rivalry that stems from
imitation. To manage this violence of all against all, humans often
turn to violence against one, the scapegoat, thereafter
incorporated into ritual. The second group consists of
archaeologists working at the Neolithic sites of Çatalhöyük and
Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. At both sites there is evidence of
religious practices that center on wild animals, often large and
dangerous in form. Is it possible that these wild animals were
ritually killed in the ways suggested by Girardian theorists? Were
violence and the sacred intimately entwined and were these the
processes that made possible and even stimulated the origins of
farming in the ancient Near East? In this volume, Ian Hodder and a
team of contributors seek to answer these questions by linking
theory and data in exciting new ways.
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