No Bosses, No Gods: Marx, Engels, and the Twenty-first Century Study of Religion

Matthew Day

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No Bosses, No Gods

Marx, Engels, and the Twenty-first Century Study of Religion

Matthew Day

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Flagging enrollments. Disappearing majors. Closed departments. The academic study of religion is in trouble. No Bosses, No Gods argues that Karl Marx is essential for reversing course—but it will take letting go of what most scholars think they know about him.

The book’s first half draws on the scholarship of international specialists—as well as new translations of the original German texts—to present Marx the anti-theorist, a political journalist deeply skeptical about what happens when the professoriate sits down to "theorize" about social worlds. The second half appeals to this modified portrait of Marx and charts a new course beyond both actually existing religious studies and contemporary genealogies of the religion category. The result, perhaps, is an academic study of religion worth having in the twenty-first century.

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Matthew Day, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.

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Acknowledgements
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Common Abbreviations
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Note on Translations
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Note on Religion and “Religion”
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Overture. Left Out in the Cold War
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Part One. Putting Marx in His Place
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Chapter One Carbuncles and All: The Difficult Life of a Difficult Man
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Postscript Unreading Marx in the Twenty-First Century
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Chapter Two Age of the Living Dead: Marx and the Political Economy of an Upside-Down World
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Postscript Marx and the End of Marxist “Ideology”
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Chapter Three False Friends and True Comrades: Engels on the Limits of Christian Socialism
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Postscript Marx and Engels? Marx or Engels? Marx vs. Engels?
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Chapter Four Vanguard of the Revolution: Plekhanov, Russian Marxism, and the Peasant Question
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Postscript How Heavy is a Nightmare?
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Interlude Capital Red in Tooth and Claw
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Part Two Taking Marx to Work
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Chapter Five Which Side Are You On? Religion as Contentious Cosmopolitics
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Postscript Interwar Fascists, Post-War Boomers, and the Study of Religion
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Chapter Six Real Enough to Count: Critical Criticism and the Genealogy of “Religion”
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Postscript Class, Contention, and Capital in Eighteenth-Century England
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Coda A World of Trouble
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Bibliography
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Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; religion; religious studies

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Scholars of religious studies, philosophy and history

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No Bosses, No Gods

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Common Abbreviations

Note on Translations

Note on Religion and “Religion”

Contents

Overture. Left Out in the Cold War

Chapter One Carbuncles and All: The Difficult Life of a Difficult Man

Postscript Unreading Marx in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter Two Age of the Living Dead: Marx and the Political Economy of an Upside-Down World

Postscript Marx and the End of Marxist “Ideology”

Chapter Three False Friends and True Comrades: Engels on the Limits of Christian Socialism

Postscript Marx and Engels? Marx or Engels? Marx vs. Engels?

Chapter Four Vanguard of the Revolution: Plekhanov, Russian Marxism, and the Peasant Question

Postscript How Heavy is a Nightmare?

Interlude Capital Red in Tooth and Claw

Chapter Five Which Side Are You On? Religion as Contentious Cosmopolitics

Postscript Interwar Fascists, Post-War Boomers, and the Study of Religion

Chapter Six Real Enough to Count: Critical Criticism and the Genealogy of “Religion”

Postscript Class, Contention, and Capital in Eighteenth-Century England

Coda A World of Trouble

Bibliography

Index

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