Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion

Warren S. Goldstein, Ph.D. (1998) in Sociology, New School for Social Research, is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Central Florida. He has published several articles which come out of his doctoral dissertation entitled Messianism and Marxism: Walter Benjamin and Ernst Bloch's Dialectical Theories of Secularization.

• Acknowledgements Introduction: Marx, Critical Theory, and Religion: A Critique of Rational Choice, Warren S. Goldstein I. Marx Opium as Dialectics of Religion: Metaphor, Expression and Protest, Andrew M. Mckinnon The Origin of Political Economy and the Descent of Marx, William Clare Roberts II. Critical Theory Toward a Dialectical Sociology of Religion: A Critique of Positivism and Clerico-Fascism, Rudolf J. Siebert Psalm 91, Max Horkheimer, Translated By Michael R. Ott The Notion of the Totally “Other” and its Consequence in the Critical Theory of Religion and the Rational Choice Theory of Religion,Michael R. Ott From A Beautiful Mind to the Beautiful Soul: Rational Choice, Religion, and the Critical Theory of Adorno & Horkheimer, Christopher Craig Brittain Intersubjectivity and Religious Language: Toward a Critique of Regressive Trends in Thanatology, Kenneth G. Mackendrick III. Religion Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity: A Critical Dialectical/ Conflict Approach to Biblical History, Warren S. GoldsteinThe Concept of Choice in the Rise of Christianity: A Critique of Rational-Choice Theory, George Lundskow Speaking in Tongues: A Dialectic of Faith and Practice, Bonnie Wright And Anne Warfield Rawls From the Caliphate to the Shaheedim: Toward a Critical Theory of Islam, Lauren Langman Operationalizing the Critical Theory of Religion, David Gay, Warren S. Goldstein, and Anna Campbell Buck About the Authors References Index