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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
A Light Shall Appear in the East: An Introduction to This Volume
Part 1. Catastrophe, Apocalypse, and Japan
1. The Nuclear Menace—A New Sacrament for Humanity: Catastrophes and Near Misses
2. World War II and the Victimary Era
3. Undifferentiation Reconsidered
4. A Reading of the Atomic Bombing of Nagasaki-Urakami with Nagai and Girard
Part 2. Mimetic Theory and Japanese Culture
5. Girardian Structure and Dionysian Components
6. The Sacrifice of the Mediator: The Murder on Gifu’s Sugou Plateau and Folk Performing Art
7. Decadence and Conversion: On the Thought of Ango Sakaguchi
8. Living in a State of Abandonment: The Anime Vexille’s Supplementary Apocalypse
9. Subculture, Conformity, and Sacrifice: Kamikaze Girls through a Mimetic Lens
Part 3. Mimetic Theory and Theology
10. Back to the Future: The Prophetic and the Apocalyptic in Jewish and Christian Settings
11. Reading the Antichrist Type: Christian Apocalyptic Typology and Girardian Mimesis
12. The Place of Mimesis and the Apocalyptic: Toward a Topology of the “Far and Near,” or Is René Girard a Postmodernist?
Conclusion
13. The Drum, the Gaita, and the Desert: Thoughts on How to Approach Conflicts with Mimetic Theory
List of Contributors
Index
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