Marx, Critical Theory And Religion: A Critique Of Rational Choice : Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume 6
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Critical Social Sciences
ISBN-10
160846041X
ISBN-13
9781608460410
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Imprint
Haymarket Books
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 1st, 2009
Print length
406 Pages
Weight
635 grams
Product Classification:
Religion: generalMarxism & Communism
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This collection of essays brings together scholars who use Marxist frameworks to analyze religion.
The Sociology of Religion has had several frameworks guiding its analysis including functionalism, interpretive sociology, phenomenology, symbolic interactionism and now rational choice theory. Marxism has tended to ignore religion assuming it is something that would eventually disappear even though it retained theological elements. This collection of essays brings together a group of scholars who use frameworks provided by Marx and Critical Theory in analyzing religion. Its goal is to establish a critical theory of religion within the sociology of religion as an alternative to rational choice. In doing so, it engages in a critique of the positivism, uncritical praise of the market (neoconservativism) and one dimensional conception of rationality of the rational choice theory of religion.
Warren S. Goldstein (Ph.D. New School for Social Research) is Executive Director of the Center for Critical Research on Religion (www.criticaltheoryofreligion.org) and a Visiting Fellow (2009-2010) of The Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University. He has published articles in several journals including Critical Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Implicit Religion, and Humanity and Society. His research revolves around developing a critical sociology of religion (with a dialectical theory of secularization as its central focus) as a "new paradigm" in the sociology of religion.
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