Can I make a Views "Rendered Node" field not be linked to the original node?
This happens because whenever Drupal renders a node someplace other than the node's page (for example, /node/12345) it will include the title as a link to the node itself. This is done in modules/node/node.tpl.php:

&lt;?php if (!$page): ?&gt;
  &lt;h2&lt;?php print $title_attributes; ?&gt;&gt;
  &lt;a href="&lt;?php print $node_url; ?&gt;"&gt;
  &lt;?php print $title; ?&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;?php endif; ?&gt;


To stop this from happening in your view when using the rendered node as a field, you probably want to tweak the view field template. If you override node.tpl.php in your theme, other displays of nodes (for example, the default front page) will stop working as you expect.

I did this in views-view-field--test--rendered-entity.tpl.php using preg_replace:

$output = preg_replace('@(&lt;header class="node-header"&gt;\s+&lt;h1 class="node-title"[^&gt;]*&gt;\s+)&lt;a[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;&gt;]*)&lt;/a&gt;(\s+&lt;/h1&gt;\s+&lt;/header&gt;)@', '$1$2$3', $output);
print $output;


Note that the exact regex will depend on the theme you're using. This is for an Omega subtheme.