REDS – Die Roten > Religion (E) | Religion (D)
Originally published in London, Atlantic Highlands (NJ) & Bombay in 1986.
© 1986 Paul N. Siegel.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan für REDS – Die Roten.
Dedicated to the memory of Thomas Münzer (c. 1489-1525), religious fighter for freedom, and of Thomas Paine (1737-1809), anti-religious fighter for freedom.
1. French Enlightenment Materialists’ View of Religion
The French Materialist Ancestors of Marxism
Religion Sanctions Tyranny
Religion Fosters Ignorance
Matter is Eternal: The Universe Needs No Gods
Contradictions in Theism
Man’s Immortal Soul
Faith and the Mystical Experience in Revealed Religion
2. The Marxist View of Religion
Dialectical Materialism and Its Criticism of French Materialism
The Marxist Analysis of the Origins of Religion
The Marxist Perception of Religion as Ideology
Marxism and Modernist Christianity
Marxism and Agnosticism
Engels and Freud on Religious Alienation
3. Marxism and Religion Compared
The Charge that Marxism is a Religion
Marxism vs. Stalinist Scholasticism
The Spirit of Marxism and that of Early Christianity
4. Judaism: Its Origin and Development in Europe and Israel
Marxism and the History of Western Religions
The Nomadic Ancestors of the Israelites
The Reforming Prophets’ Response to Palestine’s Foreign Domination
The Effects of the Babylonian Exile
The Effects of the Scattering of the Jews
Judaism in the Middle Ages
Jews in the Modern World
Judaism in Israel
5. Catholicism: Its Origin and Development in Europe
Early Christianity: a Movement of the Ancient Proletariat
Christianity’s Inception among the Jews
The Effects of the Spread of Christianity to the Gentiles
The Catholic Church and Feudalism
The Renaissance Papacy
The Counter-Reformation
The Effects of the French Revolution
The European Counter-Revolution and the Church
Social Catholicism
The Catholic Church’s Collaboration with Fascism
The Catholic Church Today
6. Protestantism: Its Origin and Development in Europe
The Lutheran Revolt Against Catholicism
Calvinism and Revolution
The English Revolution and. the Radical Dissenting Sects
Quakerism: From Radicalism to Respectability
Methodism: From Working Class to Middle Class
English Protestantism and the Alienation of the Working Class
Christian Socialism
Modern English Protestantism
Continental Protestantism Since the Industrial Revolution
7. Religion in the United States
The Puritans and the Conquest of the Indians
The American Revolution: a Setback to Religion
The Religious Reaction
The Civil War and Religion
Black Religion
The Protestant Churches and Labour
American Catholicism
American Judaism
The Religious Situation Today: The Three-Religion System
‘Jesus Freaks’, Mormons, and Evangelicals
8. Hinduism and Buddhism
The Two Chief Asiatic Religions
The Rise of Kingdoms and the Origin of Buddhism
The Development of Hinduism
The Decline of Buddhism in India
Islam in India and Its Effects on Hinduism
The Spread of Buddhism Through Asia
Asian Religions and the Blocked Development of Capitalism
9. Islam
Social Origins of Islam
The Effect of Its Social Origins on Islam
Islam and the Tribal Ethics and Religion of the Arabs
Islam, Judaism, and Christianity
The Expansion of Islam
The Zenith of Islamic Civilization
The Development and Decline of Islamic Civilization
Islamic Sects
Islam and the Anti-Imperalist Struggle
Islam and Modernization
Islam and Reaction
10. Marxist Parties and Religion
Lenin on Marxist Parties and Religion
The Russian Communist Party and Religion
The Chinese Communist Party and Religion
The Castroites and Religion
The Sandinistas and Religion
Religion and the Struggle for Socialism
Bibliography
Last updated on 17.2.2005