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A Lesson on Sacrificial Rituals with VR Intro

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A small intro to René Girard’s philosophy of violence and sacred. This piece is an introduction of the lesson about sacrificial rituals in connection with its social function and other types of socially acceptable violence.

Context: popularization of social studies.

Home reading after: Violence and the Sacred. Translated by Patrick Gregory. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977

René Girard (left), ritual during Tamil month of Aadi (right)

Text and scence: Lidia Yatluk
Voice: Alex Knyazev

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