The Emergence of ‘Marxism’ in its Historical Context

Autor(en)

Julian Strube

Abstrakt

This review essay discusses Gareth Stedman Jones’s biography of Karl Marx from a Religious Studies perspective. It highlights the benefits of this study for ongoing discussions about the relationship between socialism and religion. Despite a substantial body of scholarship from other disciplines, scholars of religion often perceive this relationship from a more or less implicitly Marxist perspective. For this reason, Stedman Jones’s critical view on the emergence of ‘Marxism,’ as well as his historical contextualization of Marx’s intellectual development, can help to shed new light on the historical accuracy of Marxist and other socialist narratives that attempted to exclude religion from the history of socialism.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Religionswissenschaft

Journal

Global Intellectual History

Band

3

Seiten

275-281

Anzahl der Seiten

7

ISSN

2380-1883

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2017.1354970

Publikationsdatum

09-2018

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

603909 Religionswissenschaft, 601023 Globalgeschichte

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

History, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Cultural Studies, Library and Information Sciences

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/the-emergence-of-marxism-in-its-historical-context(ecddaae7-9a7f-4321-afea-697160766a91).html