Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion : : A Critique of Rational Choice /

Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion : : A Critique of Rational Choice / / edited by Warren Goldstein.

The Sociology of Religion has had several frameworks guiding its analysis including functionalism, interpretive sociology, phenomenology, symbolic interactionism and now rational choice theory. Marxism has tended to ignore religion assuming it is something that would eventually disappear even though...

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Superior document:Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 6
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Goldstein, Warren,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2006.
Year of Publication:2006
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (419 p.)
Notes:Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion:
  • A Critique of Rational Choice, Warren S. Goldstein
  • I. Marx
  • Opium as Dialectics of Religion: Metaphor, Expression and Protest, Andrew M. Mckinnon
  • The Origin of Political Economy and the Descent of Marx, William Clare Roberts
  • II. Critical Theory
  • Toward a Dialectical Sociology of Religion: A Critique of Positivism and Clerico-Fascism, Rudolf J. Siebert
  • Psalm 91, Max Horkheimer , Translated By Michael R. Ott
  • The Notion of the Totally "Other" and its Consequence in the Critical Theory of Religion and the Rational Choice Theory of Religion,
  • Michael R. Ott
  • From A Beautiful Mind to the Beautiful Soul: Rational Choice, Religion, and the Critical Theory of Adorno & Horkheimer,
  • Christopher Craig Brittain
  • Intersubjectivity and Religious Language: Toward a Critique of Regressive Trends in Thanatology, Kenneth G. Mackendrick
  • III. Religion
  • Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity: A Critical Dialectical/ Conflict Approach to Biblical History, Warren S. Goldstein
  • The Concept of Choice in the Rise of Christianity: A Critique of Rational-Choice Theory, George Lundskow
  • Speaking in Tongues: A Dialectic of Faith and Practice, Bonnie Wright And Anne Warfield Rawls
  • From the Caliphate to the Shaheedim: Toward a Critical Theory of Islam, Lauren Langman
  • Operationalizing the Critical Theory of Religion, David Gay, Warren S. Goldstein, and Anna Campbell Buck
  • About the Authors
  • References
  • Index.

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