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Mimetic theory
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<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/Herd_behavior/CH8FF4nP">Herd behavior</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses/AYxqadgo">Keeping up with the Joneses</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Rivalry_(economics)/SKzqLqny">Rivalry (economics)</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Tantalus/dEVcNBCa">Tantalus</a></li></ul> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <ul><li>René Girard. <i>I See Satan Fall Like Lightning</i>. New York, NY: Orbis Books, 2001.</li> <li>René Girard. and Benoît Chantre. <i>Battling to the End: Conversations with Benoît Chantre</i>. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 2009.</li> <li>René Girard. <i>Evolution and Conversion: Dialogues on the Origins of Culture</i>. London: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2017.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://violenceandreligion.com">Colloquium on Violence & Religion</a>: international organization of scholars and practitioners interested in mimetic theory</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"What is Mimetic Theory?". 2017. Retrieved 2020-05-13. <a href="https://violenceandreligion.com/mimetic-theory/" target="_blank">https://violenceandreligion.com/mimetic-theory/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Girard, "Generative Scapegoating", in Robert G. Hammerton-Kelly, eds., Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, René Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation, p. 122. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>"What is Mimetic Theory?". Colloquium on Violence & Religion. 2017-01-24. Retrieved 2024-03-20. <a href="https://violenceandreligion.com/mimetic-theory/" target="_blank">https://violenceandreligion.com/mimetic-theory/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>"A Very Brief Introduction". IMITATIO. Retrieved 2024-03-20. <a href="http://www.imitatio.org/brief-intro" target="_blank">http://www.imitatio.org/brief-intro</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"What is Mimetic Theory?". shared ignorance. 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2024-03-20. <a href="https://woodybelangia.com/what-is-mimetic-theory/" target="_blank">https://woodybelangia.com/what-is-mimetic-theory/</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Lawtoo, Nidesh (2022). Homo Mimeticus: A New Theory of Imitation. Leuven University Press. p. 37. hdl:20.500.12657/59184. ISBN 9789462703469.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) <a href="9789462703469" target="_blank">9789462703469</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>