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Critical Theory of Religion

Books

Boer, Roland. 2012 Criticism of Earth: On Marx, Engels and Theology IV. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers (Chicago: Haymarket Books: Forthcoming).

_______. 2010. Criticism of Theology: On Marxism and Theology III. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers (Chicago: Haymarket Books in press).

_______. 2009. Criticism of Religion: On Marxism and Theology II. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers (Chicago: Haymarket Books 2011).

_______. 2007. Criticism of Heaven: On Marxism and Theology. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers (Chicago: Haymarket Books 2009).

Boyarin, Jonathan. 1992. Storm from Paradise: The Politics of Jewish Memory. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Brittain, Christopher Craig. 2010. Adorno and Theology: An Introduction to the Core Ideas in Theodor Adorno’s work and their Relevance for Theology. New York: Continuum.

Butler, Judith, et al. 2011. The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere. New York: Columbia University Press.

Goldstein, Warren S., ed. 2006. Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers. (paperback Haymarket Books 2009).

Guess, Raymond and Margaret Kohlenbach, eds. 2005. The Early Frankfurt School and Religion. Palgrave MacMillan.

Hewitt, Marsha Aileen. 1995. Critical Theory of Religion: A Feminist Analysis. Fortress Press.

LaLonde, Marc P. 1999. Critical Theology and the Challenge of Jurgen Habermas: Toward Critical Theory of Religious Insight. Peter Lang Publishers.

Löwy, Michael. 2005. Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History.’ London: Verso.

MacKendrick, Kenneth. 2007. Discourse, Desire, and Fantasy in Jürgen Habermas’ Critical Theory. Oxford: Routledge.

Miri, Seyed Javad, ed. 2011. Social Theory, Religion, and Critical Discourses: Critical Theory in the Postmodern Globe. Saarbrücken: Lambert Academic Publishing.

Ott, Michael. 2001. Max Horkheimer’s Critical Theory of Religion: The Meaning of Religion in the Struggle for Human Emancipation. Lanham: University Press of America.

Mendieta, Eduardo, ed. 2004. The Frankfurt School on Religion: Key Writings by the Major Thinkers. Routledge.

Siebert, Rudolf J. Manifesto of the Critical Theory of Religion and Society: The Wholly Other, Liberation, Happiness and the Rescue of the Hopeless, 3 Vols. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.

_______. 2001. The Critical Theory of Religion: The Frankurt School. Lanham: Scarecrow Press.

Simpson, Gary M. 2001. Critical Social Theory: Prophetic Reason, Civil Society, and Christian Imagination. Augsburg Fortress Publishers.

Tibi, Bessam. 2012. Islam in Global Politics: Conflict and Cross-Civilizational Bridging. Routledge.

Tremlett, Paul- François. Religion and the Discourse of Modernity. New York: Continuum.

Ward, Graham. 2000. Theology and Contemporary Critical Theory. 2nd Edition. Palgrave MacMillan.

Zuidervaart, Lambert. 1993. Adorno’s Aesthetic Theory: The Redemption of Illusion. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Journal Articles

Accetti, Carlo Invernizzi . 2010. “Can Democracy Emancipate Itself from Political Theology? Habermas and Lefort on the Permanence of the Theologico-Political.” Constellations 17:254–270.

Beaulieu, Alain. 2010. “Towards a Liberal Utopia: The Connection between Foucault’s Reporting on The Iranian Revolution and The Ethical Turn.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 36:801-818.

Dalferth, Ingolf U. 2010. “Post-secular Society: Christianity and the Dialectics of the Secular.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 78(2):317-345.

Ferrara, Alessandro. 2009. “The Separation of Religion and Politics in a Post-secular Society.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 35:77-91.

Goldstein, Warren S. 2001. “Messianism and Marxism: Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch’s Dialectical Theories of Secularization.” Critical Sociology 27: 246-281.

Gonzalez, George. 2012. “Shape Shifting Capital: New Management and the Bodily Metaphors of Spiritual Capitalism.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 42(3): 325-344.

Jaarsma, Ada. S. 2010. “Habermas’ Kierkegaard and the Nature of the Secular.” Constellations 17:271–292.

Kim. Andrew E. “Critical Theory and the Sociology of Religion: A Reassessment.” Social Compass 43(2):267-283.

Langman, Lauren. 2006. “From the Caliphate to the Shaheedim: Toward a Critical Theory of Islam.” Pp. 285-345 in Warren S. Goldstein, ed. Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.

Leonard, Miriam. 2010. “Prometheus and the Pentateuch: Feuerbach, Marx and the Genesis of Secular Anti-Semitism.” Thesis Eleven 102:57-75.

Löwy, Michael. 2009. “Capitalism as Religion: Walter Benjamin and Max Weber.” Historical Materialism 17(1): 60-73.

McKinnon, Andrew. 2006. “‘Opium’ as Dialectical Metaphor: Religion, Expression, and Protest.” In Warren S. Goldstein,” Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers.

Rasch, William. 2009. “Enlightenment as Religion.” New German Critique 36(3):109-131.

Sawchuk, Dana. 2005. “Horkheimer and Adorno on Social Change: Problems and Potential in Light of ‘History from Below.'” Critical Sociology 31(4): 537-557.

Styers, Randall. 2009. “Postcolonial Theory and the Study of Christian History.” Church History 78(4):840-854.

Suvin, Darko. 2007. “Inside the Whale, or etsi communismus non daretur: Reflections on How To Live When a Truly Just Society Is a Necessity but Nowhere on the Horizon.” Critical Quarterly [Oxford UK] 49(1): 119-37, available at www.blackwell-synergy.com/ (German transl. in DasArgument no. 271 [2006]: 383-98).

Tibi, Bassam. 2009. “The Political Legacy of Max Horkheimer and Islamist Totalitarianism.” Telos 148:7-15.

_______. 2002. “Habermas and the Return of the Sacred. Is it a religious Renaissance?” Religion, Staat, Gesellschaft 3(2):265-296.

Toscano, Alberto. 2010. “Beyond Abstraction: Marx and the Critique of the Critique of Religion.” Historical Materialism 18(1):3-29.

Webb, Dan. 2009. “`If Adorno isn’t the Devil, it’s because he’s a Jew’: Lyotard’s Misreading of Adorno through Thomas Mann’s Dr Faustus.” Philosophy & Social Criticism 35:517-531.

Weidner, Daniel. 2010. “Thinking beyond Secularization: Walter Benjamin, the “Religious Turn,” and the Poetics of Theory.” New German Critique 37(3):131-148.