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  In the Vale of Tears

On Marxism and Theology, V

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Roland Boer, /University of Newcastle, Australia/

/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 kairós as a key to
revolution; is highly suspicious of the ideological and class alignments
of ethics; offers a thorough reassessment of the role of fetishism 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.

Winner of the 2014 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

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