The Critique of Religion and Religion's Critique

On Dialectical Religiology
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41903-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 165, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 651 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

In The Critique of Religion and Religion’s Critique: On Dialectical Religiology, Dustin J. Byrd compiles numerous essays honouring the life and work of the Critical Theorist, Rudolf J. Siebert. His “dialectical religiology,” rooted in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, especially Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Leo Löwenthal, and Jürgen Habermas, is both a theory and method of understanding religion’s critique of modernity and modernity’s critique of religion. Born out of the Enlightenment and its most important thinkers, i.e. Kant, Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, religion is understood to be dialectical in nature. It contains within it both revolutionary and emancipatory elements, but also reactionary and regressive elements, which perpetuate mankind’s continual debasement, enslavement, and oppression. Thus, religion by nature is conflicted within itself and thus stands against itself. Dialectical Religiology attempts to rescue those elements of religion from the dustbin of history and reintroduce them into society via their determinate negation. As such, it attempts to resolve the social, political, theological, and philosophical antagonisms that plague the modern world, in hopes of producing a more peaceful, justice-filled, equal, and reconciled society. The contributors to this book recognize the tremendous contributions of Dr. Rudolf J. Siebert in the fields of philosophy, sociology, history, and theology, and have profited from his long career. This book attempts to honour that life and work.

Contributors include: Edmund Arens, Gregory Baum, Francis Brassard, Dustin J. Byrd, Denis R. Janz, Gottfried Küenzlen, Mislav Kukoc, Michael, R. Ott, Rudolf J. Siebert, Hans K. Weitensteiner, and Brian C. Wilson.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Byrd, Dustin J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Notes on Contributors

1 The Evolution of the Critical Theory of Religion and Society: Union, Disunion, and Reunion of the Sacred and the Profane (1946–2019): Part I

Rudolf J. Siebert

2 The Evolution of the Critical Theory of Religion and Society: Union, Disunion, and Reunion of the Sacred and the Profane (1946–2019): Part II

Rudolf J. Siebert

3 Towards a Dialectical Critique of Religion: Aufhaben and Tajdid, and the Potential for Renovatio and Renewal

Dustin J. Byrd

4 Fomenting the Constellations of Revolutionary “Now-Time:” Walter Benjamin’s Dialectical Theory of Religion, Society and History

Michael R. Ott

5 Identity, Reconciliation, and Solidarity: Political-Theological Reflections

Edmund Arens

6 Siebert on Nationalism as Pathology

Denis R. Janz

7 April 1945 – The War is Over in Frankfurt am Main

Hans K. Weitensteiner

8 Boškovic’s Epistemological Approach: The Foundation of a New Spirituality?

Francis Brassard

9 The Power of Ideas and Life: Alexander Herzen and the Russian Intelligentsia – an Outline

Gottfried Küenzlen

10 KJV in the USA: The Impact of the King James Bible in America

Brian C. Wilson

11 “Islamic Colonization” and the Coming European “Wretched:” On the Ideology of Alt-Fascism

Dustin J. Byrd

12 Globalization Challenge: Economic Unification vs. Cultural and Religious Differences

Mislav Kukoc

13 Laudato Si’

Gregory Baum

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dustin J. Byrd, Ph.D. (2016), Michigan State University, is an Associate Professor of Religion, Philosophy and Arabic at Olivet College. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and manuscripts, including Islam in a Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity, and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith (Brill, 2016).