Rondinele Felipe
Doctoral
student in Science of Religion UFJF. (FAPEMIG scholarship holder).
Email:
rondinelelfelipe@gmail.com
Summary
When we think about the mimetic theory and its
developments in recent scientific thought, we quickly associate this belonging
to the intellectual corollary of René Girard. This author offered a new look at
violence and the sacred, suggesting that we are guided by a mimetic mechanism
of appropriation so competitive, contagious and disruptive that the first
communities would have succumbed to the level of extinction, were it not for
our fortuitous ability to channel collective violence. and direct it against a
victim; a scapegoat. The great intuition of this author is that the collective
violence inflicted and sentenced against a scapegoat constitutes the heart of
the sacred. Not only that, but human cultures were only possible,
paradoxically, thanks to this first homicide that appeased the violence of all
against a single individual. Therefore, the word that designates the persecuted
or murdered victim is, in Girardian terms, “scapegoat”. In view of this, it can
be pointed out that the place of the victim (scapegoat) in the primacy of
Liberation Theology is not unknown. Likewise, this communication intends to
analyze how this theological branch understands this victimization process and
to what extent Girard's scapegoat can chorus the victims pointed out and protected
by Liberation Theology.
Keywords: mimesis, violence, scapegoat, victim, Liberation Theology.
Reviewed by Current Scientific Journal
on
novembro 05, 2022
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