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No Bosses, No Gods

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

Matthew Day (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

XIII, 280 Seiten

2023
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-106509-0 (ISBN)

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Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

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.

Matthew Day, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	Religion and Reason ; 68
Zusatzinfo	2 b/w ill.
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	550 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Engels, Friedrich • Friedrich Engels • Karl Marx • Marx, Karl • Religion • Religionswissenschaft • Religious Studies
ISBN-10	3-11-106509-X / 311106509X
ISBN-13	978-3-11-106509-0 / 9783111065090
Zustand	Neuware