Criticism of Heaven On Marxism and Theology: book by Roland Boer

Yesterday I found an old colleague from McGill Fac. of Religious Studies from the late 80's and early 90's on the internet. He has an intriguing and ironical Blogsite entitled Stalin's Moustache. Roland is Research Professor in Theology at the University of Newcastle, Australia. He is the author of numerous books in biblical studies and philosophy with a special expertise in Marxism and Theology and has published numerous books and essays.

I encourage blog readers to take a look at his site at:http://stalinsmoustache.blogspot.com/

Below see the details on a recent book by Roland!
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Criticism of Heaven
On Marxism and Theology
Roland Boer
About this book:
This volume consists of a critical commentary on the interactions between Marxism and theology in the work of the major figures of Western Marxism. It deals with the theological writings of Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Louis Althusser, Henri Lefebvre, Antonio Gramsci, Terry Eagleton, Slavoj Žižek and Theodor Adorno. In many cases their theological writings are dealt with for the first time in this book. It is surprising how much theological material there is and how little commentators have dealt with it. Apart from the critical engagement with the way they use theology, the book also explores how their theological writings infiltrate and enrich their Marxist work. The book has three parts: Biblical Marxists (Bloch and Benjamin), Catholic Marxists (Althusser, Lefebvre, Gramsci and Eagleton), and the Protestant Turn (Žižek and Adorno).

Publication year: 2007


Series: Historical Materialism Book Series, 18
ISBN-13 (i)The ISBN (International Standard Book Number) has been changed from 10 to 13 digits on 1 January 2007: 978 90 04 16111 5
ISBN-10: 90 04 16111 2

Cover: Hardback
Number of pages: xxiv, 472 pp.

List price: € 104.00 / US$ 149.00