1st Edition
Secularist, Religious and Scientistic Socialism Red Faith I
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
Biography
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).
The book was translated by Rikard Ehnsiö.
