Sacrifice amid Covenant: From Abuse to Gift in Mimesis and Sacrifice: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines 2019 (Bloomsbury Academic)
Sacrifice amid Covenant: From Abuse to Gift
July 31, 2023
Category: Writings on Theologies of Relationality
The Nature of Humanity & the Origins of Religion: Michael Tomasello
July 29, 2023
Click here for article > The Nature of Humanity & the Origins of Religion This article looks at the evolutionary biology evidence for human relationality and “hypercooperativity” that was the human modus vivendi until relatively recent agrarianism. It was published in […]
PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS AND BIOLOGICAL FINDINGS-PART II: PLAY, ART, RITUAL, AND RITUAL SACRIFICE
March 31, 2021
PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS AND BIOLOGICAL FINDINGS, PART II: PLAY, ART, RITUAL, AND RITUAL SACRIFICE by Marcia Pally Abstract. This Part II of a two-part article illustrates how research in evolutionary biology, anthropology, archeology, and psychology illuminates questions arising in philosophy—specifically questions […]
Philosophical Questions and Biological Findings-Part 1: Human Aggression
March 31, 2021
PHILOSOPHICAL QUESTIONS AND BIOLOGICAL FINDINGS, PART I: HUMAN COOPERATIVITY, COMPETITION, AGGRESSION by Marcia Pally Abstract. This first part of a two-part article illustrates how research in evolutionary biology and psychology illuminates questions arising in philosophy—specifically questions about the origins of […]
Circling the wagons or opening the circle
January 30, 2021
Circling the Wagons or Opening the Circle For Dialog https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/dial.12614 By Marcia Pally, New York University, [email protected] Abstract: “To approach eudaimonia or human flourishing,” Darcia Narvaez writes, “one must have a concept of human nature, a realization of what constitutes […]
Our post-pandemic future: What basics should be its basis?
July 27, 2020
Our post-pandemic future: What basics should be its basis? By Marcia Pally Religion & Ethics, May 24, 2020 What is needed to effect a change in our socio-economic and environmental practices? By what principles should we proceed after the […]
More than a Resource: Covenant as a Basis for Societal Organization
July 27, 2020
More than a Resource: Covenant as a Basis for Societal Organization By Prof. Dr. Marcia Pally in: Religion and Democracy: Challenges and Resources in a Public Theological Perspective Torsten Meireis and Rolf Schieder (Eds., 2017), pp. 71-87 Introduction Of human thriving, […]
Recovering Relationality: From ‘Selfish Gene’ to ‘Hyper-Cooperative Species’
July 27, 2020
Recovering Relationality: From the ‘Selfish Gene’ to a ‘Hyper-Cooperative Species’ By Marcia Pally Religion and Ethics, 5 Apr 2016 In the summative speech of the film Margin Call, Jeremy Irons, playing the fictional head of a collapsing Lehman Brothers-type investment house, […]
A “social imaginary” of the commons: Its ontology and politics
July 27, 2020
A “social imaginary” of the commons: Its ontology and politics by Marcia Pally and Adrian Pabst Abstract: This article suggests that the political and socio-economic difficulties burdening advanced economies, a factor as well in recent populist surges, are best addressed […]
Relational Views of Humanness: The Reciprocity of Ontos and Telos
July 27, 2020
Pally, Marcia “Relational Views of Humanness: The Reciprocity of Ontos and Telos”
Studies in Christian Ethics, 2019, May 3, pp. 1-11.