Abstract

I am very pleased with this issue. It is always a pleasure to read again work from authors I have followed closely for years, above all René Girard, but it is also a delight to be surprised by new authors with new ways of reasoning and assembling “matter”.I thank my assistant Sun Jai Kim, the Colloquium on Violence and Religion, the Michigan State University English Department, the College of Arts and Letters, and the Offices of the Provost and Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies for continued support of the editing and publishing of Contagion as well as Imitatio for their support of our series of books also published by Michigan State University Press. As editor, I am especially..