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scapegoat

Description: A scapegoat is a person or group blamed or punished for the faults of others, and the term also refers to a ritual sacrificial animal.
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The Scapegoat
1989 · René Girard · Johns Hopkins University Press eBooks · 573
Myth and Society in Ancient Greece
1981 · Herbert Hoffmann, J.-P. Vernant · RAIN · 540
Creation of the Sacred: Tracks of Biology in Early Religions
1997 · Gustavo Benavides, Walter Burkert · Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion · 253
Grammars of identity/alterity : a structural approach
2004 · Gerd Baumann, Andrâe Gingrich · 204
Strangers, Gods and Monsters: Interpreting Otherness
2002 · Richard Kearney · 189
Le bouc émissaire
1982 · René Girard · B. Grasset eBooks · 175
J. G. Frazer: His Life and Work.
1988 · Robert Alun Jones, Robert Ackerman · Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews · 169
The forgotten man: a new history of the Great Depression
2008 · Choice Reviews Online · 160
The Golden Bough
2009 · James George Frazer · Oxford University Press eBooks · 139
Le sacrifice humain en Grèce ancienne
1994 · Pierre Bonnechere · Presses universitaires de Liège eBooks · 100
Human sacrifice in ancient Greece
1992 · Hughes, Dennis D. · Choice Reviews Online · 99
Thersites: Comedy, Scapegoats, and Heroic Ideology in the Iliad
1988 · W. G. Thalmann · Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974-) · 96
Holy Terror
2005 · Terry Eagleton · 95
The Monkey as Mirror
1987 · Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney · Princeton University Press eBooks · 93
Alcibiades and Athens
1999 · David Gribble · 91
Animals in the Third Reich: pets, scapegoats, and the Holocaust
2001 · Choice Reviews Online · 82
The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson
1974 · John Catanzariti, Bernard Bailyn · The New England Quarterly · 80
Alcibiades and Athens: a study in literary presentation
2000 · Choice Reviews Online · 74
Must There Be Scapegoats: Violence and Redemption in the Bible
1987 · Raymund Schwager · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 73
Fighting Terror by Rite of Redemption and Reconciliation
2007 · Robert L Ivie · Rhetoric and Public Affairs · 71
Scapegoats, villains, and disasters
1967 · Thomas E. Drabeck, Enrico L. Quarantelli · Society · 64
The spirit of despotism: Understanding the tyrant within
2006 · Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries · Human Relations · 62
Barbarian hordes: the overpopulation scapegoat in international development discourse
2014 · Robert Fletcher, Jan Breitling, et al. · Third World Quarterly · 61
This is not sufficient: an essay on animality and human nature in Derrida
2008 · Choice Reviews Online · 60
The stimulus qualities of the scapegoat.
1962 · Leonard Berkowitz, James A. Green · Journal of Abnormal & Social Psychology · 57
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