Index • 393hell and the Golden Age, 84–85
and historical development toward a
totally administered society, 148,
149
from idealistic to materialistic
dialectic, 82
incorporation of depth psychology
into critique of domination, 326, 328
and the Infinite, 66
instrumental reason as legitimating
ideology of capitalism, 291
interdisciplinary approach to religion,
4
liberational substance of religion, 137
and longing for the totally Other,
62–63, 79–80, 107, 130, 131–34
melded insights of Marx with Weber
and Freud, 336
methodology of dialectics, 2, 129–32
negative notion of the truth, 111, 112
negative theology, 64–65, 130, 145–46
negativity of the Absolute, 143, 144
new form of historical materialism, 99
not concerned with Absolutes or
knowledge of the Infinite, 143
as post-modern, 102
post-religious and post-metaphysical,
77–78
and radical enlightenment, 78–79
radicalized the second and the third
commandments of the Decalogue,
65, 100, 130, 140
radical negative dialectics, 81
recommends obedience to human
nature and to the goal of alternative
Future III, 90
religious differences and class
differences, 2
revolutionary expression of resistance
and hope against the crisis of
capitalist society, 137–38
secular discipleship, 101–2
structure of thoughts, 81
studies on authoritarianism, 326–27
and thanatology, 185–88
as a theodicy, 67, 68
understands religion as related to
concern for objective truth, 173
Crystal Night, 92–93
cults of Mithra and Isis, 238
cultural capital, 246
“cunning men,” 242
Cyrus, King of Persia, 212
Damascus, 302, 307
Daniel, 212
Dante. SeeAlighieri, Dante
Divine Comedy
Dar Al Hayat, 299
David, 207–8, 221
death
authority invested in narrative, 190
avoidance of reality of, 187
emphasis on developing spiritual
narratives during the process of,
191
generalized frameworks for, 198
late modern, 183, 184, 190
modern death, 5, 182–83, 200
neo-modern death, 183–85, 189, 190
postmodern response to, 180
potentially authoritarian and
mystifying dynamics of religious
language, 186
and search for meaning, 243
as a taboo subject, 187
“tamed death,” 181
three ideal typical attitudes toward, 5
topology of attitudes and practices,
179, 181
traditional death, 181–82, 188
Western attitudes toward, 181
See alsoWalter, Tony
Death and Spirituality, 191
death education, 186
death ideologies, 180, 185, 187
Decalogue. SeeMosaic Decalogue
deism, 74
Demerath, N. J., 163
depth psychology, 289, 326, 328
De Quincey, Thomas
Confessions of an English Opium Eater,
17
Descartes, René, 122
determinate negation, 79, 81, 131
dialectic
negative, 70, 129, 130
notion of, 79
and truth, 113–14
dialectical logic, 128
dialectical materialism, 75–76, 109
dialectical methodology, 129–32
dialectical relationships, and “feedback
loops,” 352
dialectical secularization, 214
dialectical sociology, 82
dialectical theater, 77
dialectical theory of religion, 61, 63,
130–32, 335
dialectic of enlightenment, 2, 105
Dialectic of Enlightenment(Horkheimer
and Adorno), 2, 286–87