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

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

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Series: Religion and Reason, Book 68

PhilosophyReligion General

Publisher Price: $21.99

ISBN10: 3111628507
ISBN13: 9783111628509
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: Nov 4 2024
Pages: 293
Weight: 1.01
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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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