René Girard and Raymund Schwager

Scott Cowdell is Associate Professor and Research Fellow in Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia, Canon Theologian of the Canberra-Goulburn Anglican Diocese, and Founding President of the Australian Girard Seminar.Chris Fleming is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Anthropology at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His is the author of Violence and Mimesis (2004) and is current Vice-President of the Australian Girard Seminar.Joel Hodge is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at Australian Catholic University, Australia. He is the author of Resisting Violence and Victimisation: Christian Faith and Solidarity in East Timor (2012) and is current Treasurer and Secretary of the Australian Girard Seminar.Mathias Moosbrugger is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Systemic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where he serves as the coordinator of the research project "Raymund Schwager: Dramatic Theology."Sheelah Treflé Hidden is a research associate with the Heythrop Institute: Religion and Society at the University of London, UK. She is the editor of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Mystical Perspectives on the Love of God (2014).

The edited and translated correspondence between René Girard and Raymund Schwager is a great gift to those engaged in the study of violence and religion-specifically relating to mimetic theory … Several points in this book are of particular significance: the helpful timeline provided by the editors, the translator notes, and the themes discussed by the two correspondents … [T]he editors and translators clearly viewed their work as a labor of love-and it shows.

• Editors' Introduction Beautiful Minds in Dialogue Karin Peter and Nikolaus Wandinger Notes on the English Translation The Girard–Schwager Correspondence, 1974–1991 List of Publications Cited in the Correspondence List of Who's Who in the Correspondence Index