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The Critique of Religion and Religionâs Critique
On Dialectical Religiology
Series: - Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Volume: 165
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In The Critique of Religion and Religionâs Critique: On Dialectical Religiology, Dustin J. Byrd compiles numerous essays honouring the life and work of the Critical Theorist, Rudolf J. Siebert. His âdialectical religiology,â 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 religionâs critique of modernity and modernityâs 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 mankindâs 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 KukoÄ, Michael, R. Ott, Rudolf J. Siebert, Hans K. Weitensteiner, and Brian C. Wilson.
Contributors include: Edmund Arens, Gregory Baum, Francis Brassard, Dustin J. Byrd, Denis R. Janz, Gottfried Küenzlen, Mislav KukoÄ, Michael, R. Ott, Rudolf J. Siebert, Hans K. Weitensteiner, and Brian C. Wilson.
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).
âPreface
âNotes on Contributors
â1 The Evolution of the Critical Theory of Religion and Society: Union, Disunion, and Reunion of the Sacred and the Profane (1946â2019): Part I
âRudolf J. Siebert
â2 The Evolution of the Critical Theory of Religion and Society: Union, Disunion, and Reunion of the Sacred and the Profane (1946â2019): Part II
âRudolf J. Siebert
â3 Towards a Dialectical Critique of Religion: Aufhaben and TajdÄ«d, and the Potential for Renovatio and Renewal
âDustin J. Byrd
â4 Fomenting the Constellations of Revolutionary âNow-Time:â Walter Benjaminâs Dialectical Theory of Religion, Society and History
âMichael R. Ott
â5 Identity, Reconciliation, and Solidarity: Political-Theological Reflections
âEdmund Arens
â6 Siebert on Nationalism as Pathology
âDenis R. Janz
â7 April 1945 â The War is Over in Frankfurt am Main
âHans K. Weitensteiner
â8 BoÅ¡koviÄâs Epistemological Approach: The Foundation of a New Spirituality?
âFrancis Brassard
â9 The Power of Ideas and Life: Alexander Herzen and the Russian Intelligentsia â an Outline
âGottfried Küenzlen
â10 KJV in the USA: The Impact of the King James Bible in America
âBrian C. Wilson
â11 âIslamic Colonizationâ and the Coming European âWretched:â On the Ideology of Alt-Fascism
âDustin J. Byrd
â12 Globalization Challenge: Economic Unification vs. Cultural and Religious Differences
âMislav KukoÄ
â13 Laudato Siâ
âGregory Baum
âIndex
âNotes on Contributors
â1 The Evolution of the Critical Theory of Religion and Society: Union, Disunion, and Reunion of the Sacred and the Profane (1946â2019): Part I
âRudolf J. Siebert
â2 The Evolution of the Critical Theory of Religion and Society: Union, Disunion, and Reunion of the Sacred and the Profane (1946â2019): Part II
âRudolf J. Siebert
â3 Towards a Dialectical Critique of Religion: Aufhaben and TajdÄ«d, and the Potential for Renovatio and Renewal
âDustin J. Byrd
â4 Fomenting the Constellations of Revolutionary âNow-Time:â Walter Benjaminâs Dialectical Theory of Religion, Society and History
âMichael R. Ott
â5 Identity, Reconciliation, and Solidarity: Political-Theological Reflections
âEdmund Arens
â6 Siebert on Nationalism as Pathology
âDenis R. Janz
â7 April 1945 â The War is Over in Frankfurt am Main
âHans K. Weitensteiner
â8 BoÅ¡koviÄâs Epistemological Approach: The Foundation of a New Spirituality?
âFrancis Brassard
â9 The Power of Ideas and Life: Alexander Herzen and the Russian Intelligentsia â an Outline
âGottfried Küenzlen
â10 KJV in the USA: The Impact of the King James Bible in America
âBrian C. Wilson
â11 âIslamic Colonizationâ and the Coming European âWretched:â On the Ideology of Alt-Fascism
âDustin J. Byrd
â12 Globalization Challenge: Economic Unification vs. Cultural and Religious Differences
âMislav KukoÄ
â13 Laudato Siâ
âGregory Baum
âIndex
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