No Bosses, No Gods: Marx, Engels, and the Twenty-first Century Study of Religion

Matthew Day

Published by De Gruyter 2023

No Bosses, No Gods

Marx, Engels, and the Twenty-first Century Study of Religion

Matthew Day

Volume 68 in the series Religion and Reason

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111065540

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About this book

Flagging enrollments. Disappearing majors. Closed departments. The academic study of religion is in trouble. No Bosses, No Gods argues that Karl Marx is essential for reversing course—but it will take letting go of what most scholars think they know about him.

The book’s first half draws on the scholarship of international specialists—as well as new translations of the original German texts—to present Marx the anti-theorist, a political journalist deeply skeptical about what happens when the professoriate sits down to "theorize" about social worlds. The second half appeals to this modified portrait of Marx and charts a new course beyond both actually existing religious studies and contemporary genealogies of the religion category. The result, perhaps, is an academic study of religion worth having in the twenty-first century.

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Matthew Day, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Common Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Note on Translations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Note on Religion and “Religion” Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Overture. Left Out in the Cold War Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One. Putting Marx in His Place
Chapter One Carbuncles and All: The Difficult Life of a Difficult Man Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Postscript Unreading Marx in the Twenty-First Century Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
Chapter Two Age of the Living Dead: Marx and the Political Economy of an Upside-Down World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	61
Postscript Marx and the End of Marxist “Ideology” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Chapter Three False Friends and True Comrades: Engels on the Limits of Christian Socialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
Postscript Marx and Engels? Marx or Engels? Marx vs. Engels? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	126
Chapter Four Vanguard of the Revolution: Plekhanov, Russian Marxism, and the Peasant Question Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Postscript How Heavy is a Nightmare? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Interlude Capital Red in Tooth and Claw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Part Two Taking Marx to Work
Chapter Five Which Side Are You On? Religion as Contentious Cosmopolitics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
Postscript Interwar Fascists, Post-War Boomers, and the Study of Religion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Chapter Six Real Enough to Count: Critical Criticism and the Genealogy of “Religion” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
Postscript Class, Contention, and Capital in Eighteenth-Century England Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Coda A World of Trouble Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars of religious studies, philosophy and history
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 280
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; religion; religious studies

eBook

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783111065540

Hardcover

Published: April 27, 2023
ISBN: 9783111065090