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Published in association with the Center for Critical Research on Religion.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to Warren S. Goldstein.
Authors will find the proposal guidelines on the Studies in Critical Research on Religion book series webpage.
The series has published an average of one volume per year since 2014.
Studies in Critical Research on Religion was initially published as a subseries of Studies in Critical Social Sciences; 3 volumes appeared as part of that subseries.
Max Weber and Ernst Troeltsch constructed their theoretical frameworks in debate with historical materialism. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels provided Weber and Troeltsch with the tools of base/superstructure and class analysis that they employed in their analysis of religion. The article places Weber and Troeltsch in the historical context of the rise of the Social Democratic Party and its splintering during World War I. It compares the writing on religion by Engels, Eduard Bernstein and Karl Kautsky with those of Weber and Troeltsch. It focuses on Ancient Judaism, the origins of Christianity, Christian heretical sects, the Reformation, the German Peasant Wars, and the Puritan Revolution. Some points in common are the origins of communism in Judaism and Christianity and the association between Protestantism and capitalism. This article shows how Weber and Troeltsch critically appropriated from historical materialism and uses this with the intent of constructing a critical sociology of religion.
Published in association with the Center for Critical Research on Religion.
Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/ or full manuscripts to Warren S. Goldstein
Authors will find the proposal guidelines on the Critical Theory of Religion book series web page.
Studies in Critical Research on Religion was initially published as a subseries of Studies in Critical Social Sciences. Starting with Vol. 4, Studies in Critical Research on Religion is published as a separate series.
Abstract
This article explores how the Jewish Question went from being a question of whether to give Jews, as a religious minority, citizenship, to a racial theory of a conflict between the Aryan and Semitic races. It explores the origins of Christian anti-Judaism in Europe and describes how it flared up during the Crusades, Inquisition, and Pogroms. It then describes how and explains why the Jewish Question became pseudo-secularized into a pseudo-scientific racial anti-Semitism, which culminated in the Final Solution.