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Lenin, religion, and theology

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Lenin, religion, and theology/ Roland Boer.
Author:	Boer, Roland,
Published:	New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2013.,
Description:	1 online resource.
Subject:	Communism and Christianity. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137314123
ISBN:	9781137314123 (electronic bk.)

Lenin, religion, and theology
Boer, Roland,1961-

Lenin, religion, and theology[electronic resource] /Roland Boer. - New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2013. - 1 online resource. - New approaches to religion and power. - New approaches to religion and power..

Spiritual booze and freedom of religion -- Gospels and parables -- Christian revolutionaries and God-builders -- Returning to Hegel: revolution, idealism and God -- Miracles can happen -- Venerating Lenin.

This book pursues the implications for linking Lenin with theology, which is not a project that has been undertaken thus far. What does this inveterate atheist known for describing religion as 'spiritual booze' (a gloss on Marx's 'opium of the people') have to do with theology? This book reveals far more than might initially be expected, so much so that Lenin and the Russian Revolution cannot be understood without this complex engagement with theology. It also seeks to bring Lenin into recent debates over the intersections between theology and the Left, between the Bible and political thought. The key names involved in this debate are reasonably well-known, including Alain Badiou, Slavoj Vivek, Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, Terry Eagleton, Ernst Bloch, Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze and F̌lix Guattari. Boer has written concerning these critics, among others, in Boer's earlier five-volume Criticism of Heaven and Earth (Brill and Haymarket, 2007-13). Lenin and Theology builds upon this earlier project but it also stands alone as a substantial study in its own right. But it will be recognised as a contribution that follows a series that has, as critics have pointed out, played a major role in reviving and taking to a new level the debate over Marxism and religion. The book is based upon a careful, detailed and critical reading of the whole 45 volumes of his Collected Works in English translation : 55 volumes in the Russian original. From that close attention to the texts, a number of key themes have emerged: the ambivalence over freedom of choice in matters of religion; his love of the sayings and parables of Jesus in the Gospels; his own love of constructing new parables; the extended and complex engagements with Christian socialists and 'God-builders' among the Bolsheviks; the importance of Hegel for his reassessments of religion; the arresting suggestion that a revolution is a miracle, which redefines the meaning of miracle; and the veneration of Lenin after his death.

ISBN: 9781137314123 (electronic bk.)

Source: 652473Palgrave Macmillanhttp://www.palgraveconnect.comSubjects--Personal Names:

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Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich,
1870-1924--Religion.Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Communism and Christianity.
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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: B4249.L384 / B64 2013

Dewey Class. No.: 355.4/11

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