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Roland Boer
Norman Gottwald’s monumental The Tribes of Yahweh , published in 1979, has had a great influence in biblical politics and in the application of sociological methods to the Hebrew Bible…
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This text provides an introduction to Marxist literary criticism. It comprises studies of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Eagleton, Adorno, Benjamin, Bloch, Lefebvre, Lukacs and Jameson.
The only large-scale critical introduction to Western Marxism for biblical criticism. Roland Boer introduces the core concepts of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Deleuze and Guattari, Eagleton…
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This book not only explicates Stalin’s thoughts, but thinks with and especially through Stalin. It argues that Stalin often thought at the intersections between theology and Marxist political philosophy -…
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This book covers the whole system of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, dealing with Deng Xiaoping’s theory, the socialist market economy, a moderately well-off (Xiaokang) society, China’s practice and theory of…
In this exploration of John Calvin’s political thought, Roland Boer treats Calvin as a biblical scholar and political philosopher, showing us elusive aspects of Calvin’s Institutes. Boer investigates Calvin’s careful…
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A postcolonial interpretive perspective brings together class, gender, race, sexuality, psychology, and ideology. Here an international group of authors focuses on biblical texts using postcolonial methodology, explores interactions between Bible…
This study analyses the work of Nick Cave, a singular, idiosyncratic and brilliant musician, specifically through his engagements with theology and the Bible. It does so not merely in terms…
Why do some of the major Marxists of the twentieth century engage extensively with theology? What is the influence on their other work? This book explores the intersections between Marxism…
Criticism of Religion asks why and how some of the leading Marxist critics deal with the question of religion and theology. It offers a spirited critical commentary on the work…
Through a lively and thorough critical commentary, Criticism of Theology engages with some of the most significant Marxists who are fascinated by religion: Max Horkheimer, E.P. Thompson, G.E.M. de Ste…
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Drawing on mostly ignored texts, this book thoroughly reassesses Marx and Engels’s engagement with theology. Alongside opium, Hegel and Feuerbach, other dimensions become important: historical context, Bruno Bauer, Max Stirner…
In the Vale of Tears offers the author’s own detailed response to the long and rich tradition of Marxism and religion. It deals with the crucial issues of myth, political…
In Red Theology: On the Christian Communist Tradition, Roland Boer presents key moments in the 2,000 year tradition of Christian communism, moving from its roots in New Testament texts to…
By bringing the key people in the history of biblical studies to life in a series of short stories, this book provides an alternative introduction to and engagement with Hebrew…
‘Symposia’ illuminates the central issues and concerns of biblical studies by presenting a series of stories. The model for the stories is the ancient Greek idea of the symposium, a…
Offers a meeting between genre theory in biblical studies and the work of Mikhail Bakhtin, who continues to be influential in literary criticism. In this book, Bakhtin comes face to…
This volume analyses the work of Nick Cave, a singular, idiosyncratic and brilliant musician, specifically through his engagements with theology and the Bible.
The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel offers a new reconstruction of the economic context of the Bible and of ancient Israel. It argues that the key to ancient economies is…
This volume consists of a critical commentary on the interactions between Marxism and theology.
Roland Boer draws on a vast depth of scholarly knowledge to reclaim the rich contribution of Marxism to theological studies
In the Criticism of Heaven and Earth series’s final volume Roland Boer presents his own views on Marxism and Theology.
Long a topic of debate and discussion, Boer sets the record straight about Marx, Engels, and Religion.
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What is secular biblical criticism? ‘Secularism and Biblical Studies’ presents a selection of essays that examine the nature of secular biblical studies and its hermeneutical principles.
In this illuminating new study renowned researcher Roland Boer unearths the little studied, but widely influential, tradition of Christian communism.
While biblical scholars increasingly use insights from postcolonial theory to interpret the Bible, the Bible itself is often neglected by postcolonial criticism, with the result that there is little influence…
Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door offers a critically sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between biblical studies and contemporary culture.
What is the future for the Bible, one of the most important books in the world? This title explores the idea that the Bible is an unruly and uncontrollable text…
What is the future for the Bible, one of the most important books in the world? In this manifesto, Roland Boer explores the idea that the Bible is an unruly…
This book examines the historical development-in practice and theory-of governance in socialist systems. With more than a century of such development from many parts of the world, including the Soviet…
Points to the vital role that the Bible played in colonization, using Australia-one of the first centers of postcolonial criticism - as an example. Drawing upon colonial literature, this work…
The five volume Criticism of Heaven and Earth series offers a renewed and enlivened interaction between Marxism and religion.
This book states that the political systems of China, Vietnam, Cuba and other socialist countries are showing distinct maturity and ability to deal effectively with challenges - the most recent…
A scholar of biblical studies and cultural theory develops a political myth for the Left based on foundational stories in the Bibles first six books, from Genesis through Joshua.
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Roland Boer and Christina Petterson investigate economic realities in the first century. Theoretically flexible and responsive to historical data, their use of Regulation theory takes seriously the centrality of agriculture…
Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers - Smith, Hobbes, Grotius, Malthus…
What does global biblical studies look like in the early decades of the twenty-first century, and what new directions may be discerned? Profound shifts have taken place over the last…
