No Bosses, No Gods

Marx, Engels, and the Twenty-first Century Study of Religion
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-11-162850-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

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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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Day, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Matthew Day, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.

Matthew Day, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.