Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Common Abbreviations VII
4. Note on Translations IX
5. Note on Religion and “Religion” XI
6. Contents XIII
7. Overture. Left Out in the Cold War 1
8. Part One. Putting Marx in His Place
9. Chapter One Carbuncles and All: The Difficult Life of a Difficult Man 25
10. Postscript Unreading Marx in the Twenty-First Century 52
11. Chapter Two Age of the Living Dead: Marx and the Political Economy of an Upside-Down World 61
12. Postscript Marx and the End of Marxist “Ideology” 88
13. Chapter Three False Friends and True Comrades: Engels on the Limits of Christian Socialism 100
14. Postscript Marx and Engels? Marx or Engels? Marx vs. Engels? 126
15. Chapter Four Vanguard of the Revolution: Plekhanov, Russian Marxism, and the Peasant Question 133
16. Postscript How Heavy is a Nightmare? 161
17. Interlude Capital Red in Tooth and Claw 171
18. Part Two Taking Marx to Work
19. Chapter Five Which Side Are You On? Religion as Contentious Cosmopolitics 177
20. Postscript Interwar Fascists, Post-War Boomers, and the Study of Religion 198
21. Chapter Six Real Enough to Count: Critical Criticism and the Genealogy of “Religion” 203
22. Postscript Class, Contention, and Capital in Eighteenth-Century England 231
23. Coda A World of Trouble 241
24. Bibliography 255
25. Index 276