1st Edition

Socialism and Religion Roads to Common Wealth

By Vincent Geoghegan Copyright 2011
256 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 - has added a new urgency to this project; how is religion to be integrated, and if necessary contested,... Read more
Introduction 1. John Macmurray: Christ and Marx 2. Kenneth Ingram: The Christian and the Sexual – Homosexuality, Bisexuality, Pederasty 3. Olaf Stapledon: utopia and Worship 4. Sir Richard Acland and the moment of Common Wealth 5. Conclusion

Biography

Vincent Geoghegan is Professor of Political Theory at Queen’s University Belfast.