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

• Author: Siebert, Rudolf J., 1927-
• 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...

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.