392 • Index
Christianity
assimilated pagan cultural traditions,
224, 242
communistic character, 218
critical dialectical/conflict approach
to Biblical history, 205–6
cultural expression of the dominant
neo-liberal doctrine in the United
States, 126
emergence of, 213–21
ethic of self-sacrifice, 232–33
as extension of Jewish slave morality,
215
as the legitimating belief system of
the ruling class, 239–41, 246
messianic belief in freedom and
equality and opposition to the
polytheistic master morality, 222
notion of personally ministering to
the needy unknown to, 240
one of many cults, 238
otherworldly direction, 215
and positivism, 76
problem of distinguishing, 236–39
routinized and rationalized, 215, 221
as “slave mentality,” 335
and split between east and west after
the fall of Rome, 238
success of depended on extrinsic
politics, 224
syncretic explanations, 237
valorized asceticism and fostered
inner determination (salvation
anxiety), 293
Christian Orthodoxy, 224, 232
church attendance. Seereligiosity
civil society
capitalist class dominance, 123, 124,
125, 135
ideological functions of religion, 129,
136–37
class antagonism
in ancient Judaism, 206, 210–11, 222
and capitalist class dominance, 123,
124, 125, 135
and solidarity through compassion,
138
class inequality, and assumption of
Christian charity, 239–40
Cleaver, Harry, 43
clerico-fascism, 2, 4, 6, 88–89, 91, 95, 97,
328, 334, 337
Clow, Harvey, 259–60
cognitivists, 71
Coleman, James S.
Foundations of Social Theory,157–58
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
“Kubla Khan,” 17
collective consciousness, 86
colonizer and colonized, 331
communal salvation, 181
communicative action
Habermas’s theory of, 65
and religious language, 191–94
Communism, 290
Comnena, Anna
The Alexiad, 238
compensator, notion of, 161, 162
compensatory ideology
of fascism, 322
of fundamentalism, 328–29
of Islamic Fundamentalism, 322
compensatory masculinity, 328–30
Comte, Auguste, 71
conceptual reductions, 283
Confessing Church, 91
Confucianism, 294
Constantine the Great, 232, 233, 234,
238, 240
Constantinople, fall of, 241
“coordination game,” 154
Cordoba, 302, 307
corporate praise, 271
Coughlin, Father Charles E., 88–89, 91,
92–93, 95
Council of Nicea, 232, 240
creation story, adapted from paganism
in both symbolism and morality, 237
cremation, 183
critical notion of history, 135
Critical Sociology,1–2
critical theory of society and religion, 3,
6, 83, 130, 149–50, 343
analysis of religion from a dialectical
perspective, 2
analysis of rise of fascism, 291, 337
anti-fascism, 87–99
and clerico fascism, 89
contrary to all forms of positivism, 81
critique of domination, 289
critique of ideology, 336
critique of positivism, 169
definition of religion, 63
dialectical conception of society, 82
as enlightenment, 2, 289–300
foundational analysis of modernity,
286–87
freedom of will, 146–47
future-orientated remembrance and
redemption, 105–6
God-hypostases concretely
superseded, 102