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In the Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology V

Name: In the Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology V
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Author: Roland Boer
ISBN: 9781608463787

by Roland Boer

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Publisher: Haymarket Books
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For readers interested in political theology.

Guides you through the debate of faith and Marxism.

Reflect on how theology intersects with class ethics.

A provocative final volume exploring the complex and often tense dialogue between Marxism and Christianity.

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In the Vale of Tears brings to a culmination the project for a renewed and enlivened debate over the interaction between Marxism and religion. It does so by offering the author's own response to that tradition. It simultaneously draws upon the rich insights of a significant number of Western Marxists and strikes out on its own. Thus, it argues for the crucial role of political myth on the Left; explores the political ambivalence at the heart of Christianity; challenges the bent among many on the Left to favour the unexpected rupture of kairos as a key to revolution; is highly suspicious of the ideological and class alignments of ethics; offers a thorough reassessment of the role of festishism in the Marxist tradition; and broaches the question of death, unavoidable for any Marxist engagement with religion. While the book is the conclusion to the five-volume series, The Criticism of Heaven and Earth, it also stands alone as a distinct intervention in some burning issues of our time.