Manifesto of the critical theory of society and religion : : the wholly other, liberation, happiness and the rescue of the hopeless / / by Rudolf Siebert.

• Superior document: Studies in critical social sciences, v. 20
• Author: Siebert, Rudolf J., 1927-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in critical social sciences, v. 20; Studies in Critical Social Sciences 20.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1878 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

The Manifesto develops further the Critical Theory of Religion intrinsic to the Critical Theory of Society of the Frankfurt School into a new paradigm of the Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Theology of Religion. Its central theme is the theodicy problem. The Manifesto approaches this theme in the framework of comparative religion and critical political theology in a narrative and discursive fashion. In search of a solution to the theodicy problem, the Manifesto explores, trends in civil society toward Alternative Future I (the Totally Administered Society), Alternative Future II (the Militarized Society), and Alternative Future III (the Reconciled Society) in the horizon of the longing for the Wholly Other as perfect justice and unconditional love. Toward that goal it relies on both the critical theory of society as developed by Max Horkheimer, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and others, and on the new political theology of Johannes B. Metz, Helmut Peukert, and Edmund Arens.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material_Vol1 -- Chapter One. The Critical Theory of Society -- Chapter Two. The Neo-Conservative Trend Turn -- Chapter Three. The Three-fold Critical Theory of Religion -- Chapter Four. From Quantitative to Qualitative Infinity -- Chapter Five. Theory Formation -- Chapter Six. From Traditional to Critical Theory -- Chapter Seven. Universal Pragmatic -- Chapter Eight. Truth and Justification -- Chapter Nine. Toward a New Model -- Appendices -- Preliminary Material_Vol2 -- Chapter Ten. External and Internal Perspective -- Chapter Eleven. Conscious-making and Rescuing Critique -- Chapter Twelve. Necrophilous and Biophilous Elements -- Chapter Thirteen. From the Jus Talionis to the Golden Rule -- Chapter Fourteen. Religion and Revolution -- Chapter Fifteen. Concrete Utopia -- Chapter Sixteen. Religion in Socialist Society -- Chapter Seventeen. From Magic to the Dialectical Notion -- Chapter Eighteen. Truth as Meaning of Language and Work -- Chapter Nineteen. Religion in Liberal Society -- Chapter Twenty. New York: The Capital of Liberalism -- Chapter Twenty-One. Religion in Fascist Society -- Chapter Twenty-Two. The Owl of Minerva -- Chapter Twenty-Three. Critical Religion: Against Aggression, Force, Violence, and Terror -- Preliminary Material_Vol3 -- Chapter Twenty-Four. The Jewish-German Tragedy -- Chapter Twenty-Five. From the Westphalian Peace to the Bourgeois and Socialist Revolutions -- Chapter Twenty-Six. The Expansion and Contraction of God -- Chapter Twenty-Seven. The Desperate Hope and the Rescue of the Hopeless -- Chapter Twenty-Eight. Trust in the Eternal One -- Epilogue: God, Freedom, and Immortality -- References -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- Studies in Critical Social Sciences.