Marxism, religion, and emancipatory politics [electronic resource] / Graeme Kirkpatrick, Peter McMylor, Simin Fadaee, editors.

This edited collection evaluates the relationship between Marxism and religion in two ways: Marxisms 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 in...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Kirkpatrick, Graeme, 1963- (Editor), McMylor, Peter, 1958- (Editor), Fadaee, Simin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Series:Marx, Engels, and Marxisms.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Theology after Marxism
  • 2. Marxism, theology and the meanings of critique
  • 3. Secular Redemption
  • 4. Marxism and Buddhism: A History and Appraisal
  • 5. Marxism and Sikhism: A reciprocal relationship
  • 6. Marxism and the question of political religions: can Marxism be understood as a religious phenomenon?
  • 7. Zapatismo and Theology of Liberation
  • 8. Liberation Theology and Non-Dogmatic Marxism in the Philippines
  • 9. From Freedom of Religion to Environmentalism and Democracy: Understanding the Political Praxis of Christian Activists in the Communist Party-State Vietnam
  • 10. Marxism and Confucianism in China
  • 11. The (im)possibilities of a Hindu Left in contemporary India
  • 12.The Popular Movement of the Rif; towards a class analysis of popular Islam in the contemporary Maghreb
  • 13. Marxism, Islam and the Iranian Revolution
  • 14. Political Islam as Counterhegemony: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Limits of Appropriating Gramsci to the Egyptian Context.