Overview
- Offers the first look at the intersection of three themes: Marxism, religion, and emancipation
- Brings together a diverse array of scholars from politics, anthropology, sociology, geography, and economics
- Resuscitates the study of religion as a rubric for analysing political and religious movements
Part of the book series: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms (MAENMA)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theory
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Front Matter
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Practice
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Marx
- Marxism
- Marxism and Religion
- Theology
- Frankfurt School
- utopian/messianic Christianity
- critical theory
- German idealism
- Marxism and Islam
- socialism
- secular redemption
- materialism
- emancipatory politics
- Marxism and Buddhism
- Marxism and Sikhism
- political religions
- Zapatismo
- liberation theology
- Marxism and Confucianism
- Hindu Left
About this book
This edited collection evaluates the relationship between Marxism and religion in two ways: Marxism’s treatment of religion and the religious aspects of Marxism. Its aim is to complicate the superficial understanding of Marxism as a simple rejection of religion both in theory and practice. Divided into two parts (Theory and Praxis), this book brings together the three different themes of Marxism, religion, and emancipation for the first time. The first part explores the more theoretical discussions regarding the relationship between Marxism and various themes (or currents) within religious thought, to highlight points of compatibility as well as incompatibilities/conflicts. The studies in the second part of the collection refer to how Marxist ideas are received in different parts of the world. They show that as soon as Marxism arrives in a new place, the theory interacts and bonds with a pre-existing stock of ideas, each changing the other reciprocally.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Peter McMylor is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK.
Simin Fadaee is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marxism, Religion, and Emancipatory Politics
Editors: Graeme Kirkpatrick, Peter McMylor, Simin Fadaee
Series Title: Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-91642-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91641-1Published: 25 August 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-91644-2Published: 26 August 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-91642-8Published: 24 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-7123
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7131
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 269
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Religion, Political Philosophy