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James Bernard Murphy
James Bernard Murphy is professor of government at Dartmouth College and has just completed a book manuscript titled A Genealogy of Violence: René Girard in Dialogue.
Does religion give rise to violence, or the other way around?
It’s often argued that religion gives rise to violence. But what if it were really the other way around? What if violence actually gave rise to religion?
So argued the French anthropologist and philosopher René Girard, who died Nov. 4.
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