Colloquium on Violence & Religion
An international fellowship of scholars and practitioners gathered around René Girard's mimetic theory, advancing the study of the links between violence and religion through annual meetings, a bibliography, and the journal Contagion.
Peer societies
Five societies Colloquium on Violence & Religion is read alongside.
SSSR
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion
An interdisciplinary scholarly society applying social-scientific methods to the study of religion, organized…
ASR
Association for the Sociology of Religion
A learned society that grew out of Catholic sociology into a broad scholarly home for the study of religion…
1 companies named
PJSA
Peace and Justice Studies Association
A professional association that brings together academics, educators, and activists in peace and conflict…
ISMRC
International Society for Media, Religion and Culture
An international scholarly society for researchers studying how religion moves through media and culture…
AAR
American Academy of Religion
The scholarly home that gave the study of religion a place to stand apart from the practice of it, and then…
29 companies named
Who backs COVR
No public supporter list found as of September 2026.
Who backs Colloquium on Violence & Religion's peers, but not Colloquium on Violence & Religion
Companies named publicly by at least one of Colloquium on Violence & Religion's five peer societies, and not found in Colloquium on Violence & Religion's reviewed public records.
| Company | ASR | AAR | Peers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Academy International Travel Services | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Accordance Bible Software | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Baker Academic | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Biblingo | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Bloomsbury | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Cross Bible | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| DeGruyter Brill | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Eerdmans Publishing Co. | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Gorgias Press | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Hendrickson Publishers | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Ingram Academic & Professional | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| ISD | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Kregel | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Logos | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Lutterworth Press/James Clarke & Co | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| ManuscriptShop.com | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| MDPI | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Mohr Siebeck | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Oneworld Academic | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Palgrave | Recognition Sponsors | 1 of 2 | |
| Peeters Publishing | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Routledge- Taylor & Francis Group | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Shambhala Publications | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Springer Nature | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Tutku Educational Tours | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Two Cities Press | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| W. W. Norton & Company | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Wipf and Stock Publishers | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Zondervan Academic | Named | 1 of 2 | |
| Zondervan Bibles | Named | 1 of 2 |
The outside view
An international fellowship of scholars and practitioners gathered around René Girard's mimetic theory, advancing the study of the links between violence and religion through annual meetings, a bibliography, and the journal Contagion.
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