LEADER 04928nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910792372603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-60173-3 010 $a9786612601736 010 $a90-474-2990-7 024 7 $a10.1163/ej.9789004176461.i-284 035 $a(CKB)2670000000009824 035 $a(EBL)489409 035 $a(OCoLC)593295873 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000336356 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11251859 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000336356 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10277946 035 $a(PQKB)10315268 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC489409 035 $a(OCoLC)317573556 035 $a(nllekb)BRILL9789047429906 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL489409 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10372703 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL260173 035 $a(PPN)170755770 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000009824 100 $a20090309d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCriticism of religion$b[electronic resource] $eon Marxism and theology, II /$fby Roland Boer 210 $aLeiden ;$aBoston $cBrill$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (308 p.) 225 1 $aHistorical materialism book series,$x1570-1522 ;$vv. 22 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a90-04-17646-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aThe paradoxes of Lucien Goldmann -- The dialectic of grace -- The elect and the damned -- Wagering it all -- In the world and yet not -- Theory : the tight fit of homology -- Homology -- Dialectics? -- Is Pascal among the Marxists? -- By way of conclusion : Marxism as a secular and anti-secular project -- The stumbling block of Fredric Jameson -- Supersession versus a dialectic of ideology and utopia -- Sidestepping religion -- Magic and fantasy -- Feuerbach versus Marx -- The politics of fantasy -- Apocalyptic -- By way of conclusion : towards a dialectic of religion -- The Christian communism of Rosa Luxemburg -- Tactics -- A reformer's zeal -- Betraying the spirit -- A little church history -- Anti-clericalism -- Christian communism -- Consumption versus production -- Completing Cristian communism -- Freedom of conscience -- The enticements of Karl Kautsky -- Text, history, context -- The slipperiness of sacred texts -- The Bible as a cultural product -- Reconstructing economic history -- Differentiation and slaves -- Slaves and other modes of production -- The sacred economy : prolegomena to a reconstruction -- Transitions -- Christian communism -- The forgetfulness of Julia Kristeva -- Flushing out Marx -- Monocausality, or, the taboo of the mother -- The apostle, both ways -- Other-than-human love -- Crucifying the pathologies -- Collectives -- The fables of Alain Badiou -- Banishing the one -- Theology and the event -- A generic procedure of religion? -- Pascal's miracle -- Kierkegaard's encounter -- Paul's fable -- Conclusion : necessary fables -- The conundrums of Giorgio Agamben -- The search for Paul -- Christology, or the problem of Jesus Messiah -- Faith, law and grace as placeholder of the void -- Pre-law, or trying to make sense of Paul -- Conclusion : relativising theology -- The self-exorcism of Georg Luka?cs -- A world abandoned by God -- Leap-frogging Christianity -- Autobiographical exorcism -- The Bible and the beekeeper's manual -- An apparent absence? -- Warm Marxism -- Autobiography -- Welshness -- The working class -- Conclusion : the vanishing mediator of the Baptist chapel. 330 $aCriticism of Religion offers a spirited critical commentary on the engagements with religion and theology by a range of leading Marxist philosophers and critics: Lucien Goldmann, Fredric Jameson, Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Kautsky, Julia Kristeva, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Georg Lukács, and Raymond Williams. Apart from offering sustained critique, the aim is to gather key insights from these critics in order to develop a comprehensive theory of religion. The book follows on the heels of the acclaimed Criticism of Heaven , being the second volume of a five volume series called Criticism of Heaven and Earth . 410 0$aHistorical materialism book series ;$v22. 606 $aPhilosophical theology 606 $aPhilosophy, Marxist$zEurope, Western 606 $aTheology$zEurope, Western 606 $aCommunism and religion$zEurope, Western 606 $aCommunism and Christianity$zEurope, Western 615 0$aPhilosophical theology. 615 0$aPhilosophy, Marxist 615 0$aTheology 615 0$aCommunism and religion 615 0$aCommunism and Christianity 676 $a200 700 $aBoer$b Roland$f1961-$0475442 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792372603321 996 $aCriticism of religion$93852375 997 $aUNINA