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This impressive volume brings together numerous essays honouring
the life and work of the Critical Theorist, Rudolf J. Siebert. His
'dialectical religiology' rooted in the critical theory of the
Frankfurt School-especially the work of Theodor Adorno, Max
Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Leo
Loewenthal, and Jurgen Habermas-is both a theory and method of
understanding religion's critique of modernity and modernity's
critique of religion. According to the Enlightenment and its most
important thinkers, i.e. Kant, Hegel, and Marx 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 mankind's 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 benefited from his long career.
This book attempts to honour his life and work by engaging with and
expanding upon it. Contributors include: Edmund Arens, Gregory
Baum, Francis Brassard, Dustin J. Byrd, Denis R. Janz, Gottfried
Kuenzlen, Mislav Kukoc, Michael, R. Ott, Rudolf J. Siebert, Hans K.
Weitensteiner, and Brian C. Wilson.
Spurred by the commitment to continue the critical work that
Malcolm X began, this volume analyses the enduring significance of
his life, work, and religious philosophy. Bringing together
thirteen different scholars from six different countries, Malcolm
X: From Political Escataology to Religious Revolutionary
demonstrates why Malcolm X is still vitally important fifty years
after his death.
In Frantz Fanon and Emancipatory Social Theory: A View from the
Wretched, Dustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri bring together a
collection of essays by a variety of scholars who explore the
lasting influence of Frantz Fanon, renowned psychiatrist,
revolutionary, and social theorist. Fanon 's work not only gave
voice to the "wretched" in the Algerian War of Independence
(1954-1962), but also shaped the radical resistance to colonialism,
empire, and racism throughout much of the world. His seminal works,
such as Black Skin, White Masks, and The Wretched of the Earth,
were read by The Black Panther Party in the United States,
anti-imperialists in Africa and Asia, and anti-monarchist
revolutionaries in the Middle East. Today, many revolutionaries and
scholars have returned to Fanon 's work, as it continues to shed
light on the nature of colonial domination, racism, and class
oppression. Contributors include: Syed Farid Alatas, Rose Brewer,
Dustin J. Byrd, Sean Chabot, Richard Curtis, Nigel C. Gibson, Ali
Harfouch, Timothy Kerswell, Seyed Javad Miri, Mumia Abu-Jamal,
Pramod K. Nayar, Elena Flores Ruíz, Majid Sharifi, Mohamed Imran
Mohamed Taib and Esmaeil Zeiny.
This book attempts to explain how and why Ayatollah Khomeini was
able to lead the Iranian people in their successful revolution
against the Shah of Iran. Bringing together the sociological study
of charisma by the sociologist Max Weber and the critical
psychology of Erich Fromm, especially his analysis of the "prophet"
and "priest," Byrd develops a theory of "prophetic charisma," which
attempts to explain how Khomeini's thoughts and actions made him
uniquely qualified to guide Iran from under the Shah's
dictatorship. He pays close attention to the importance of
authority, and how Khomeini's authority to lead the revolution is
tied with the charismatic authority that began with the prophet
Muhammad. Furthermore, Byrd concentrates on the relationship
between Khomeini and the political Marxist-Leninists movements and
groups in Iran at the time of the revolution. The book demonstrates
how his "Islamization" of leftist language helped infuse a radical
Islamo-Marxist critique of the Shah into the Iranian masses. Byrd
shows how Khomeini not only benefited from the Left's activities in
Iran but also how their critical analysis of the Iranian situation
influenced Khomeini's own thoughts and language.
In Ali Shariati and the Future of Social Theory, Dustin J. Byrd and
Seyed Javad Miri bring together a collection of essays by a variety
of scholars who explore the lasting influence of the Iranian
sociologist and revolutionary, Ali Shariati. Thought to be the most
important intellectual behind the Iranian Revolution of 1979, these
essays engage in a future-oriented remembrance of Shariati's life
and praxis, with the practical attempt to clarify, expand, and
apply his liberational Islamic thought to modern conditions.
Ayn Rand’s philosophy has once again found an important part on
the American political stage. With the rise of the Tea Party
movement, her political and economic philosophy has infused the
American public discourse with a new Libertarian vitality.
Ironically, many of her new followers identify themselves as
committed Christians, a prospect that Rand herself would have
rejected. This book critically reviews Rand’s secular-atheist
philosophy of religion, which includes her theory of altruism,
collectivism, and statism, and asks the questions: How did Ayn Rand
become conservative Christians’ favorite atheist?; Can
Christianity, or any other prophetic religion, be reconciled with
her philosophy of greed, selfishness, and capitalism?; Can one be
both a Christian and a dedicated follower of Ayn Rand?; Can one
appropriate her political and economic philosophy while rejecting
her radical atheism and anti-religious stance?
This provocative and important book critically examines the
challenges facing Muslims in Europe and North America. Byrd uses
the philosophical perspective of the Frankfurt School's Critical
theory to both diagnose the current problems stemming from Islam's
marginalization in the secular West, and to propose a Habermasian
discourse between the religious and the secular.
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