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Critical Theory of Religion

 

 

Books

 

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.