Marxism, Religion, and Emancipatory Politics

Graeme Kirkpatrick is Professor of Social and Cultural Theory at the University of Manchester, UK.Peter McMylor is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK.Simin Fadaee is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK.

• 1. Theology after Marxism.- 2. Marxism, theology and the meanings of ‘critique’.- 3. Secular Redemption.- 4. Marxism and Buddhism: A History and Appraisal.- 5. Marxism and Sikhism: A reciprocal relationship.- 6. Marxism and the question of ‘political religions’: can Marxism be understood as a religious phenomenon?.- 7. Zapatismo and Theology of Liberation.- 8. Liberation Theology and Non-Dogmatic Marxism in the Philippines.- 9. From Freedom of Religion to Environmentalism and Democracy: Understanding the Political Praxis of Christian Activists in the Communist Party-State Vietnam.- 10. Marxism and Confucianism in China.- 11. The (im)possibilities of a Hindu Left in contemporary India.- 12.The Popular Movement of the Rif; towards a class analysis of popular Islam in the contemporary Maghreb.- 13. Marxism, Islam and the Iranian Revolution.- 14. Political Islam as Counterhegemony: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Limits of Appropriating Gramsci to the Egyptian Context.