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A last goodbye that Boer s give to his 5 volumes about theology and marxism To be honest the proposal is nothing extraordinary and predictable considering his comments on the previous volumes but it is nonetheless a decent and necessary closure 9781608463787
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 kair s 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 In the Vale of Tears On Marxism and Theology V Historical Materialism
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