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“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”

Hélder Câmara; Archbishop, Archbishop of Olinda and Recife,

Communism, religion and atheism

31 August 2016 / 332

Professor Roland Boer continues his series with a discussion of religion and membership of communist parties. Is it possible to join a communist party as a religious... Continue reading

Roland Boer

Religion

Jesus and Marx

16 June 2016 / 478

Through exploring points of contact between Jesus of Nazareth, Karl Marx, and Lenin, Roland Boer finds new and richer layers of shared meanings betwen the Bible and communism,... Continue reading

Roland Boer

Religion

Marx’s revolutionary reading of the Bible

20 May 2016 / 370

Roland Boer continues his series on Marxism and religion with a look at some examples of how Marx interpreted the Bible. The mention of Marx and the... Continue reading

Roland Boer

Religion

Jesus, tribune of the people, ascends to heaven

4 May 2016 / 341

May 5th is Ascension Day in the Christian calendar. Andrew Brown proposes a radical linterpretation of the story, first suggested by the Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch. Introductory... Continue reading

Andrew Brown

Religion

Engels and revolutionary religion

4 April 2016 / 503

Can religion foster revolutionary movements? Roland Boer continues his series on marxism and religion, with a discussion of Engels’s growing understanding of the political ambivalence of Christianity. It... Continue reading

Roland Boer

Religion

Splitters! The death and resurrection of the Radical Jesus, from the Life of Brian to Jeremy Corbyn

25 March 2016 / 294

Anarchist, conservative, liberal or revolutionary? Professor James Crossley discusses the various interpretations of the Easter story of the life of Jesus, the Monty Python film Life of Brian,... Continue reading

James Crossley

Religion

Religion is the Opium of the People

3 February 2016 / 327

What did Marx mean by his vivid metaphor? Roland Boer continues his series of articles on Marxism and religion with an examination of the historical, textual and... Continue reading

Roland Boer

Religion

Between Illusion and Reality: Reconsidering Marxism and Religion

30 December 2015 / 303

Roland Boer sets the scene for a series of articles on the complex and contradictory relations between Marxism and religion, with an introduction to some of the... Continue reading

Roland Boer

Religion

Caudwell on Religion

26 November 2015 / 337

Ben Stevenson outlines Christopher Caudwell’s historical materialist analysis of religion. Poet, activist and theoretician Christopher Caudwell wrote extensively on issues of philosophy and idealism in culture and... Continue reading

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