This book explores the various ways in which socialists have understood the relationship between their political beliefs and different religious and philosophical traditions, describing in detail how these ideals have been expressed in political activism, cultural forms and ways of living.
This book explores the various ways in which socialists have understood the relationship between their political beliefs and different religious and philosophical traditions, describing in detail how these ideals have been expressed in political activism, cultural forms and ways of living.
Stefan Arvidsson is a professor of the History of Religions at Linnæus University, Sweden. His research interests focus on the cultural history of modern ideologies, particularly modern mythologies, fascist and socialist cultures, and humanistic scholarship. He is the author of Religion and Politics Under Capitalism: A Humanistic Approach to the Terminology (Routledge, 2019) and The Style and Mythology of Socialism: Socialist Idealism, 1871-1914 (Routledge, 2017), and the co-editor of Socialist Imaginations: Utopias, Myths, and the Masses (Routledge, 2018).
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Introduction: Why a history of religion perspective on socialism? 1. Religious piety, political statesmanship: Secularist socialism 2. On followers of the Jewish carpenter: Christian socialism 3. Esoteric symbols and spiritual circles: Alternative religious socialism 4. Denying God, affirming knowledge: Scientistic socialism, 5. Concluding remarks
Introduction: Why a history of religion perspective on socialism? 1. Religious piety, political statesmanship: Secularist socialism 2. On followers of the Jewish carpenter: Christian socialism 3. Esoteric symbols and spiritual circles: Alternative religious socialism 4. Denying God, affirming knowledge: Scientistic socialism, 5. Concluding remarks
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