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Contents

Acknowledgements ...................................................................................... ix

Introduction: Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion:
A Critique of Rational Choice .................................................................... 1
WARRENS. GOLDSTEIN

I.Marx

Opium as Dialectics of Religion: Metaphor, Expression
and Protest ................................................................................................ 11
ANDREWM. MCKINNON
The Origin of Political Economy and the Descent of Marx .................. 31
WILLIAMCLAREROBERTS

II.Critical Theory

Toward a Dialectical Sociology of Religion: A Critique of
Positivism and Clerico-Fascism .............................................................. 61
RUDOLFJ. SIEBERT
Psalm 91 .......................................................................................................... 115
MAXHORKHEIMER
TRANSLATED BYMICHAELR. OTT
The Notion of the Totally “Other” and its Consequence in
the Critical Theory of Religion and the Rational Choice
Theory of Religion .................................................................................... 121
MICHAELR. OTT
From A Beautiful Mindto the Beautiful Soul: Rational Choice,
Religion, and the Critical Theory of Adorno & Horkheimer .......... 151
CHRISTOPHERCRAIGBRITTAIN
Intersubjectivity and Religious Language: Toward a Critique
of Regressive Trends in Thanatology .................................................... 179
KENNETHG. MACKENDRICK

III.Religion

Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity: A Critical Dialectical/
Conflict Approach to Biblical History .................................................. 205
WARRENS. GOLDSTEIN