René Girard and Creative Reconciliation

The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides effective practice and practice is the ground for compelling theory. Using a Girardian hermeneutic as a starting point, a new conceptual Gestalt emerges in these essays, one not fully integrated in a formal way but showing a clear understanding of some of the challenges and possibilities for dealing with the deep divisions, enmity, hatred, and other effects of violence.

The contribution of this book to the field of reconciliation is both theoretical and practical, recognizing that good theory guides effective practice and practice is the ground for compelling theory. Using a Girardian hermeneutic as a starting point, a new conceptual Gestalt ...

Introduction: Deep-Rooted Conflict, Reconciliation and Mimetic TheoryVern Neufeld Redekop and Thomas RybaPart I. FORGIVENESS, RESPONSIBILITY, AND BLESSINGChapter 1: Mimetic Desire, Aphetic Mimesis, and Reconciliation as the Nexus of Letting Go and Turning AroundCameron ThomsonChapter 2: The Self and Other People: Reading Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation with René Girard and Emmanuel LevinasSandor GoodhartChapter 3: Dialogical ResponseSandor Goodhart and Vern Neufeld RedekopChapter 4: Blessing-Based Reconciliation in the Face of ViolenceVern Neufeld RedekopPart II. THEOLOGY OF FRIENDSHIP, PEACE, AND NON-VIOLENCEChapter 5: Towards a Theology of Friendship in the "Global Village"Nadia DelicataChapter 6: Clashing Minorities, Converging Majorities: Toward a Coming Religious PeaceJon PahlChapter 7: The Creative Non-Violent Approach of Walter WinkSue-Anne HessChapter 8: Improvising the Practice of Nonresistance as Creative MimesisPeter SmithPart III. RETHINKING GIRARDIAN CONCEPTSChapter 9: René Girard and the Symbolism of Religious SacrificeEugene WebbChapter 10: Psychology, Hermeneutic Philosophy, and Girardian Thought: Toward a Creative MimesisFrank Richardson and Kathryn FrostChapter 11: Rethinking Girardian Reconciliation: The Myth of the ExceptionLeonhard PraegPart IV. RECONCILIATION IN CONTEXTChapter 12: Seeding Reconciliation in a Theatre of War: A New Role for Military ChaplainsSteve MooreChapter 13: India and Pakistan: Changing Trajectory: The Role Of Karma Within a Framework Of ReconciliationRupa MenonChapter 14: There is a crack in everything.... New relationships for self and other in Northern IrelandDuncan MorrowChapter 15: Reconciliation as Resistance: Martyrdom in East TimorJoel HodgeChapter 16: Mimesis, Residential Schools and ReconciliationCynthia StirbysChapter 17: Bosnian Children of Command RapeAngela KiralyChapter 18: "We Forgive and ask Forgiveness": The Papal Prayers for Forgiveness in Mimetic Perspective-With an Afterthought on Recent Cases of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Church OfficialsNikolaus WandingerChapter 19: From Fracturing Resemblances to Restorative Differences: Identity, Conflict, and Mimetic Desire among the Maya Tzotzil Chamula of Chiapas MexicoMiguel de Las Casas RollandConclusionVern Neufeld Redekop and Thomas Ryba