Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion
A Critique of Rational Choice
Biographical note
Warren S. Goldstein, Ph.D. (1998) in Sociology, New School for Social Research, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. He has published several articles which come out of his doctoral dissertation entitled Messianism and Marxism: Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch's Dialectical Theories of Secularization.
Readership
Academics, students and educated laymen who are intersted in sociological theory and religion, particularly those specializing in Marxism, critical theory and sociology of religion.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion:
A Critique of Rational Choice, Warren S. Goldstein
I. Marx
Opium as Dialectics of Religion: Metaphor, Expression and Protest, Andrew M. Mckinnon
The Origin of Political Economy and the Descent of Marx, William Clare Roberts
II. Critical Theory
Toward a Dialectical Sociology of Religion: A Critique of Positivism and Clerico-Fascism, Rudolf J. Siebert
Psalm 91, Max Horkheimer, Translated By Michael R. Ott
The Notion of the Totally “Other” and its Consequence in the Critical Theory of Religion and the Rational Choice Theory of Religion,
Michael R. Ott
From A Beautiful Mind to the Beautiful Soul: Rational Choice, Religion, and the Critical Theory of Adorno & Horkheimer,
Christopher Craig Brittain
Intersubjectivity and Religious Language: Toward a Critique of Regressive Trends in Thanatology, Kenneth G. Mackendrick
III. Religion
Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity: A Critical Dialectical/ Conflict Approach to Biblical History, Warren S. Goldstein
The Concept of Choice in the Rise of Christianity: A Critique of Rational-Choice Theory, George Lundskow
Speaking in Tongues: A Dialectic of Faith and Practice, Bonnie Wright And Anne Warfield Rawls
From the Caliphate to the Shaheedim: Toward a Critical Theory of Islam, Lauren Langman
Operationalizing the Critical Theory of Religion, David Gay, Warren S. Goldstein, and Anna Campbell Buck
About the Authors
References
Index
Introduction: Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion:
A Critique of Rational Choice, Warren S. Goldstein
I. Marx
Opium as Dialectics of Religion: Metaphor, Expression and Protest, Andrew M. Mckinnon
The Origin of Political Economy and the Descent of Marx, William Clare Roberts
II. Critical Theory
Toward a Dialectical Sociology of Religion: A Critique of Positivism and Clerico-Fascism, Rudolf J. Siebert
Psalm 91, Max Horkheimer, Translated By Michael R. Ott
The Notion of the Totally “Other” and its Consequence in the Critical Theory of Religion and the Rational Choice Theory of Religion,
Michael R. Ott
From A Beautiful Mind to the Beautiful Soul: Rational Choice, Religion, and the Critical Theory of Adorno & Horkheimer,
Christopher Craig Brittain
Intersubjectivity and Religious Language: Toward a Critique of Regressive Trends in Thanatology, Kenneth G. Mackendrick
III. Religion
Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity: A Critical Dialectical/ Conflict Approach to Biblical History, Warren S. Goldstein
The Concept of Choice in the Rise of Christianity: A Critique of Rational-Choice Theory, George Lundskow
Speaking in Tongues: A Dialectic of Faith and Practice, Bonnie Wright And Anne Warfield Rawls
From the Caliphate to the Shaheedim: Toward a Critical Theory of Islam, Lauren Langman
Operationalizing the Critical Theory of Religion, David Gay, Warren S. Goldstein, and Anna Campbell Buck
About the Authors
References
Index
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