Great reading list. Thanks. Naturally, there must have been much progress in Marxist as well as anthropological and sociological analysis of religion since Marx's time.
Another question is how Marxology in relation to religion--i.e. analysis of Marx's views on religion--has progressed. There has certainly got to be more on Marx himself. I have an unverified hunch in all of this, that the distance that separates us--in spite of the contemporary existence of religious and other magical and superstitious thinking--from our premodern forbears, is much greater than generally recognized. I'll explain another time. My reading on this topic in recent months has been outside the purview of Marxism, yet these books have forced me to think in a certain dimension that I think generally escapes us moderns, even the religious among us: The Mind of the Bible-Believer (Edmund G. Cohen) Primitive Man as Philosopher (Paul Radin) Violence and the Sacred (Rene Girard) At 10:01 PM 9/25/2007, chris wright wrote: >I'll add in the following: >Kautsky's Foundations of Christianity; >Luxemburg's article on the same matter; >Paul Siegel's The Meek and the Militant; >Marxism and Religion by David McLellan (1987); >Walter Benjamin's musings on religion; >Maxime Rodinson's excellent books Islam and Capitalism, Muhammad, and >Cult, Ghetto and State; >The War of Gods by Michael Lowy; >Antonio Gramsci has a variety of things to say about religion in his >writing on popular culture; >'Socialism and Religion', and 'Religion' by Anton Pannekoek; >I believe Romila Thapar was a Marxist, and he wrote well on religion in >India; >Joseph Dietgen has material on religion in his essays; >Slavoj Zizek writes quite a bit about religion, including The Puppet and >the Dwarf and On Belief; >I am also fond of the recent essay The Continuing Appeal of Religion by >Gilles Dauve >I have no idea if Rudolf Siebert's books on the Frankfurt School and >religion are any good or even particularly Marxist >Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson has some brilliant >stuff >G.E.M. de Ste. Croix has some excellent work on religion in Antiquity >such as 'Early Christian Attitudes to Property and Slavery', alongside >his specifically pre-Christian Greco-Roman work. > >That's all that comes to mind at the moment... >s _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
