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Sa majesté des Mouches et les bienheureux de la désolation
Carnets, 2018 At first sight, Golding's Lord of the Flies and Bazin's Les Bienheureux de la Désolation would seem to be at opposite poles. In Bazin's work the inhabitants of Tristan da Cunha are evacuated to England to escape a volcanic eruption; Golding, by contrast,
Éric Fougère
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Hagiographie et théorie mimétique
Carnets, 2018 The Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne, preserved in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History, book V, describes one of the cruelest persecutions to be executed against the early Church.
Julia Sei
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Catharsis et violence politique [PDF]
Storia e Politica, 2020 The ambition of this paper is to wonder whether the cathartic function of art can be efficient in the face of contemporary political violence. To sketch out an answer to this broad issue, our study begins with a presentation of the theory of the ...
Louise Frétigné
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Omen and Anti-omen: The Rabbinic Hagiography of the Scapegoat’s Scarlet Ribbon [PDF]
, 2016 This article proposes that the place and meaning of various objects among religious communities can be explored in terms of “hagiography,” that is, through the narratives constructed around sacred objects sometimes long after their physical disappearance.
Balberg, Mira
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TV Series, 2020 This essay analyses The Leftovers’s last episode, “The Book of Nora” (S03E08), in its opposition with the episode “The Book of Kevin” (S03E01), as rival interpretative legends focusing on the scapegoat theme and its audiovisual processing in reference to
Guillaume Dulong
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Corporate Downsizing to Rebuild Team Spirit: How Costly Voting Can Foster Cooperation [PDF]
, 2007 We propose a new mechanism to achieve coordination through voting, for which we discuss a number of real-life applications. Among them, the mechanism provides for a new theory for downsizing in organizations.
Cabrales, Antonio +1 more
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René Girard’s concept of mimetic desire, scapegoat mechanism and biblical demystification
Seminare, 2022 This article provides an overview of René Girard’s concept of mimetic desire, scapegoat mechanism and biblical demystification. It also attempts to explain the basic notions of his anthropology and to contextualize them in relation to the conceptions of
Bogumił Strączek
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The scapegoat theory of exchange rates: the first tests [PDF]
, 2014 The scapegoat theory of exchange rates (2 and 5) suggests that market participants may attach excessive weight to individual economic fundamentals, which are picked as �scapegoats� to rationalize observed currency fluctuations at times when exchange ...
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Il pharmakos nelle fonti antiche e nella Storia delle religioni. Alcune valutazioni critiche
Mythos, 2018 What is meant by the Greek word pharmakos? Was it a purification ritual or a sacrifice? What are the origins of this ceremony? One or two individuals – in case of social, religious, political crisis, or a natural disaster – were expelled from the ...
Leonardo Sacco
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Imitation and the Transcendent
Teologisk Tidsskrift, 2021 Imitation stems from the originary term mimesis. Imitation can be seen as a desire, something one wishes to approbate, or it may be seen as a representation of reality.
Per Bjørnar Grande
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