Contagion, the journal of the Colloquium on Violence and
Religion, is dedicated to the exploration, criticism, and development of René
Girard’s mimetic model of the relationship between violence and religion in the
genesis and maintenance of culture. Contagion invites submissions of manuscripts dealing with the
theory or practical application of the mimetic model in anthropology,
economics, literature, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, and
cultural studies. All manuscripts submitted for publication
consideration must be original work that has not been published previously and
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EXAMPLES
BOOK Olivier O’Donovan, Peace and Certainty: A Theological Essay
on Deterrence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 74–75.
ARTICLE Andrew Lascaris, “The Likely Price of Peace: René Girard’s
Hypothesis,” New Blackfriars 66 (1985): 517–524.
CHAPTER Eric Charles White, “Negentropy, Noise, and Emancipatory
Thought,” in Chaos and Order, ed. N. Katherine Hayles (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1991), 263–277.
POEM Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Ulysses,” in The Norton Anthology of
English Literature, Seventh Edition, Vol. 2, ed. M. H. Abrams (New York: Norton, 2001),
1214, lines 16–17.
SUBSEQUENT SHORTENED CITATIONS SHOULD READ AS FOLLOWS (do
not use Ibid.):
Campbell
and Jamieson, Deeds Done in Words, 10.
Brands, “Age of Vulnerability,” 963.
Greenstein, “Eisenhower’s Leadership Style,” in
Eisenhower, 55.
