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Lenin, Religion, and Theology (Hardcover)
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Lenin, Religion, and Theology (Hardcover)
Series: New Approaches to Religion and Power
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This book pursues the implications for linking Lenin with theology,
which is not a project that has been undertaken thus far. What does
this inveterate atheist known for describing religion as 'spiritual
booze' (a gloss on Marx's 'opium of the people') have to do with
theology? This book reveals far more than might initially be
expected, so much so that Lenin and the Russian Revolution cannot
be understood without this complex engagement with theology.
It also seeks to bring Lenin into recent debates over the
intersections between theology and the Left, between the Bible and
political thought. The key names involved in this debate are
reasonably well-known, including Alain Badiou, Slavoj Zižek,
Giorgio Agamben, Antonio Negri, Terry Eagleton, Ernst Bloch,
Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari.
Boer has written concerning these critics, among others, in Boer's
earlier five-volume Criticism of Heaven and Earth (Brill and
Haymarket, 2007-13). Lenin and Theology builds upon this earlier
project but it also stands alone as a substantial study in its own
right. But it will be recognised as a contribution that follows a
series that has, as critics have pointed out, played a major role
in reviving and taking to a new level the debate over Marxism and
religion.
The book is based upon a careful, detailed and critical reading of
the whole 45 volumes of his Collected Works in English translation
- 55 volumes in the Russian original. From that close attention to
the texts, a number of key themes have emerged: the ambivalence
over freedom of choice in matters of religion; his love of the
sayings and parables of Jesus in the Gospels; his own love of
constructing new parables; the extended and complex engagements
with Christian socialists and 'God-builders' among the Bolsheviks;
the importance of Hegel for his reassessments of religion; the
arresting suggestion that a revolution is a miracle, which
redefines the meaning of miracle; and the veneration of Lenin after
his death.
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