René Girard/External Links


 * René Girard: "Are the Gospels Mythical?" in First Things: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life, April 1996. See also "August/September Letters" in First Things: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life, August/September 1996, for follow-up correspondence.
 * Girard lecture, on Violence, Victims and Christianity (Oxford 1997)
 * "What Is Occurring Today Is a Mimetic Rivalry on a Planetary Scale" Interview by Henri Tincq, Le Monde, November 6, 2001. Translated by Jim Williams. Original title: "Ce qui se joue aujourd'hui est une rivalité mimétique à l'échelle planétaire".
 * "Violence & the Lamb Slain". Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity, December 2003. A short, accessible introduction to Girardian thought, plus an interview with Girard.
 * Ratzinger Is Right in New Perspectives Quarterly (NPQ) Volume 22, Number 3 (Summer 2005). On Pope Benedict XVI and relativism.
 * Interviews with Girard on mimetic desire (Saturday, September 17, 2005) and on ritual, myth, and religion (Tuesday, October 4, 2005) by Robert P. Harrison.
 * "The J'Accuse of Rene Girard: The Audacious ideas of a great thinker" Interview with Girard by Giulio Meotti, Il Foglio, March 20, 2007. (Translation by Francis R. Hittinger IV.)
 * Reception speech of René Girard. This speech is a eulogy of his predecessor.
 * Robert Doran: Apocalyptic Thinking after 9/11: An Interview with René Girard SubStance 115 (Volume 37, Number 1, 2008.
 * Centre Pompidou: Traces du sacré: René Girard, le sens de l'histoire}}. Excerpts from a conversation with Benoît Chantre (see La conversion de l'art).

Organizations inspired by mimetic theory

 * Colloquium on Violence & Religion
 * Association Recherches Mimétiques, founded in 2006.
 * Imitatio, founded in 2008.
 * Imitation, Mimetic Theory, and Religious & Cultural Evolution - A Templeton Advanced Research Project, a two-year project.
 * The Raven Foundation. This foundation "seeks to promote healing, hope, reconciliation and peace by offering insight into the dynamics of conflict and violence".

Other resources

 * Dietmar Regensburger: Link Collection on René Girard & the Mimetic Theory. Accessed 25 November 2008
 * Colloquium on Violence and Religion, Annual Conference 2004: Nature, Human Nature, and the Mimetic Theory. Some of the conference papers are available here. Accessed 24 November 2008
 * Paul Nuechterlein: Girardian Reflections on the Lectionary: Understanding the Bible Anew Through the Mimetic Theory of René Girard * Philippe Cottet: On René Girard. Available in French and English.
 * Mark Gordon: Was Christ Just Another ‘Scapegoat’? May 3, 2006.
 * Thomas A. Michael: How To Scapegoat the Leader. A Refresher Course (for those who do not need it). An introduction to Girard.
 * Joseph Bottum: "Girard among the Girardians" in First Things: A Journal of Religion, Culture, and Public Life, March 1996. A review of Violence Unveiled by Gil Bailie, The Sacred Game by Cesareo Bandera, The Gospel and the Sacred by Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly, and The Bible, Violence, and the Sacred by James G. Williams. * Paolo Diego Bubbio: "Mimetic Theory and Hermeneutics" in Colloquy 9 (2005).
 * University of St Andrews, UK: Honorary degrees - June 2008.
 * Gerald J. Biesecker-Mast: “Reading Walter Wink's and Rene Girard's Religious Critiques of Violence as Communication Ethics.” National Communication Assocation Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, November 20-23, 1997. A short and clear explanation of the thought of Girard (principally) among other similar thoughts about people, violence and society.
 * "Scapegoats and Sacrifices: Rene Girard". Australian Broadcasting Commission - Philosopher's Zone.
 * Trevor Merrill: "On War: Apocalypse and Conversion: Review Article on René Girard's Achever Clausewitz and Jean-Michel Oughourlian's Genèse du désir" in Lingua Romana: a journal of French, Italian and Romanian culture Volume 6, number 1 / fall 2007.