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Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion ...

Studies in Critical Social Sciences Series Editor DAVID FASENFEST College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs Wayne State U ...

Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion A Critique of Rational Choice Edited by Warren S. Goldstein BRILL LEIDEN•BOSTON 2006 ...

This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Marx, critical theory, and religion ...

To Vicki, Benjamin, and Rachel ...

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Contents Acknowledgements ...................................................................................... ix Introduction ...

The Concept of Choice in the Rise of Christianity: A Critique of Rational-Choice Theory ........................................ ...

Acknowledgements I would like to thank all the people who have made this book possible. First, I would like to thank David Fasen ...

Gravestone of Max and Maidon Horkheimer, Jewish Cemetery, Bern, Switzerland, photograph by Gianni Pauciello. ...

Warren S. Goldstein Introduction: Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice The Sociology of Religion h ...

in sociology of religion. The goal of this edited volume is to make the case for a critical theory of religion – a paradigm in o ...

This edited volume is divided into three parts. The first two articles, by Andrew McKinnon and Will Roberts, look at Marx’s view ...

term. He has been developing it for the last forty years. In the essay that he contributed to this volume, Siebert sets his eyes ...

Kenneth MacKendrick delves into thanatology (death studies) from the perspective of a critical theory of religion. Basing his fr ...

they are used to regulate them. In the congregations they studied, they found that public practices like speaking in tongues mus ...

A critical theory of religion provides new directions for research in the sociology of religion. We invite other to join us. Orl ...

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Part I: Marx ...