400 • Index
A Contribution to the Critique of Political
Economy,1859 Preface to, 33–37
“creative destruction” of capitalism,
316
criticism of religion, 12, 21, 134, 151, 167
critique of alienated labor, 291, 327, 334
critique of capitalist political
economy, 3, 32, 44–51, 55, 290, 291
critique of Feuerbach’s abstract
conception of religion, 20
critique of Hegel’s Rechtsphilosophie, 27
critique of ideology in sociological
method, 160
critique of right, 18–27
dialectical materialism, 109
dialectics of Proletarian and
Bourgeois, 19
early version of secularization theory,
288
“Economic and Philosophical
Manuscript,” 25
“1844 Manuscripts,” 32
The Eighteenth Brumaire, 44
Grundrisse, 32
on high death rates in children, 15
in inappropriate use of opiates for
children, 16
indebtedness to Feuerbach, 20
interest in Dante, 37, 44
knowledge and social order as result
of material relations, 259
and limit of political economy, 42–44
philosophy and the proletariat, 20
preface to Capital,34, 39–40
Preface to the Critique of Political
Economy, 3
preface to The Holy Family, 282
quotations from Dante, 34–37
religion as a singular phenomenon, 28
religion as ideology, 281
religion as ideology related to
dissatisfaction with the inequality
of life, 245
religion as “illusory happiness,” 25
religion becomes oppressive to the
extent it presents a universal and
eternal truth, 246
religion expressed both pain and
hope, 333, 334
religion increasingly a commodity, 23
religion shaped by material
conditions, 318
religion sustained and assuaged
consequences of class domination,
322
on religious suffering, 173, 344and science, 33–37
on science of capital, 31
social practices grounded in accessible
details, 282, 283
sociology of religion, 3, 343–45
“Theses on Feuerbach,” 21
“Towards a Critique,” 28
use of opium, 14–15
as a Virgilian guide to his readers, 38
Marxism
anti-utopian orthodoxy, 25
atheism, 84
compassion, 139
orthodoxy, 32
religion connects individual to social
order and justifies the established
order as sacred, 244
tendency to ignore religion, 1
view of as secularized Messianism,
111–12
Mary, 215
Mary Magdalene, 232
material interests (economics), 2
McKinney, Andrew, 344–45
McKinnon, Andrew, 3
Mead, George Herbert, 261
meaning of life, 112–13
Medicis, 305
Medieval Roman Catholic Model, 76
Mehmet II, 306
Merton, Robert, 225
Messianism, 104, 105, 212, 319
methodological atheism, 65–66, 66
methodological individualism, 123–25
Metz, Johann Baptist, 136
micrology, 66, 70
micro sociology, 253
Middle East. SeeIslamic world
Millennialism, 319
Mills, C. Wright, 252, 256, 257, 261, 282,
283
miracles, 109
missions, 28
Misztal, Barbara, 226
modern death, 5, 188
dying takes place within established
medical institutions, 182–83
“good death,” 183
grief and emotional privacy as
guiding norms, 182–83
highly rationalizing discourse of the
medical profession in the name of
care, 200
more often viewed as tragic, 183
primarily secular and highly
instrumental, 183