Religion and Politics Under Capitalism: A Humanistic Approach to the Terminology

ISBN-13: 9780367786533 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 166 str.

Stefan Arvidsson

Opis

This book relates some of the major trends within religion and politics to offer a historical framework with which to assess their interactions and a point of departure for studies to come.

Spis treści

Part I  1 Totalitarianism and political religion  2 Mythic politics and the masses;  Excursion: On comparison  3 Liberalism and capitalist religion  Part II  4 Secular age, idealist scholarship  5 "Everything religion" and the capitalist framework  6 A humanistic view on religion  Part III  7 Basic definitions  8 Relating modern religions and political ideologies

O autorze

Stefan Arvidsson is Professor in the Study of Religions at Linnæus University, Sweden. He is the author of several books, including Aryan idols: Indo-European mythology as ideology and science (2006) and The Style and Mythology of Socialism: Socialist Idealism, 1871-1914 (2017), and editor, together with Jakub Beneš and Anja Kirsch, of Socialist Imaginations: Utopias, Myths, and the Masses (2018).