ISBN:
9783111065540
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 280 p.)
Series Statement:
Religion and Reason : Theory in the Study of Religion , 68
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Marx, Karl
;
Engels, Friedrich
;
Religionssoziologie
;
Religionswissenschaft
;
Religionskritik
;
Religionsphilosophie
;
Rezeption
;
Marxismus
Abstract:
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.
DOI:
10.1515/9783111065540
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111065540
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783111065540
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