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The Manifesto develops further the Critical Theory of Religion intrinsic to the Critical Theory of Society of the Frankfurt School into a new paradigm of the Psychology, Sociology, Philosophy and Theology of Religion. Its central theme is the theodicy problem. The Manifesto approaches this theme in the framework of comparative religion and critical political theology in a narrative and discursive fashion. In search of a solution to the theodicy problem, the Manifesto explores, trends in civil society toward Alternative Future I (the Totally Administered Society), Alternative Future II (the Militarized Society), and Alternative Future III (the Reconciled Society) in the horizon of the longing for the Wholly Other as perfect justice and unconditional love. Toward that goal it relies on both the critical theory of society as developed by Max Horkheimer, Ernst Bloch, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, and others, and on the new political theology of Johannes B. Metz, Helmut Peukert, and Edmund Arens.

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Author:   Rudolf Siebert
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 11.20cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   3.488kg
ISBN:  

9789004184367

ISBN 10:   9004184368
Pages:   1848
Publication Date:   16 August 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The Critical Theory of Society 2. The Neo-Conservative Trend Turn 3. The Three-fold Critical Th eory of Religion 4. From Quantitative to Qualitative Infinity 5. Theory Formation 6. From Traditional to Critical Theory 7. Universal Pragmatic 8. Truth and Justification 9. Toward a New Model Appendices A. Mottoes, Impulses and Motives B. Special Considerations and Inspirations C. The Five-World Macro Model D. The Fundamental Potentials, Categories, and Spheres of Actions E. Heuristic Model of the History of Religions F. Antagonisms of Modern Civil Society and their Resolutions G. Possible Alternative Futures 10. External and Internal Perspective 11. Conscious-making and Rescuing Critique 12. Necrophilous and Biophilous Elements 13. From the Jus Talionis to the Golden Rule 14. Religion and Revolution 15. Concrete Utopia 16. Religion in Socialist Society 17. From Magic to the Dialectical Notion 18. Truth as Meaning of Language 19. Religion in Liberal Society 20. New York: The Capital of Liberalism 21. Religion in Fascist Society 22. The Owl of Minerva 23. Critical Religion: Against Aggression, Force, Violence, and Terror 24. The Jewish-German Tragedy 25. From the Westphalian Peace to the Bourgeois and Socialist Revolutions 26. The Expansion and Contradiction of God 27. The Desperate Hope and the Rescue of the Hopeless 28. Trust in the Eternal One Epilogue: God, Freedom, and Immortality References Index

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Rudolf Siebert was born in 1927 in Frankfurt a.M., Germany. He received his Licentiate and Ph.D. in Theology from Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany in 1962 after studying history, philosophy, sociology, and theology at the Universities of Frankfurt, Mainz, Munster and the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., U.S.A. Siebert has taught, lectured and published widely in Western and Eastern Europe, Israel, the United States and Canada. He is professor of Religion and Society and Director of the Center for Humanistic Studies at Western Michigan University and of the international course on the Future of Religion in the I.U.C. Dubrovnik, Croatia, and of the international course on Religion and Civil Society in Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine. His previous major works were The Critical Theory of Religion: Frankfurt School, and From Critical Theory to Critical Political Theology: Personal Autonomy and Universal Solidarity.

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