| Description |
xi, 296 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
23. Religion and the Christian State. 24. Religion and the Secular State. 25. Marxian Materialism. 26. Religion as Ideology. 27. Religion as Critique. 28. Techniques of Neutralization. 29. More Techniques of Neutralization. 30. One Last Technique of Neutralization. 31. Mixing Religion and Politics. 32. Who Is the God of the Bible? Ask Pharaoh! 33. Third Commandment Idolatry. 34. A "Marxist" Sermon Against the Baalization of Yahweh -- IV. Nietzsche and the Critique of Religion as Resentment. 35. Squintingly Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche. 36. Distinctively Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche. 37. The Big Lie. 38. Jews and Priests. 39. Glittering Vices. 40. Justice and the Fascists. 41. Pity and the Pharisees. 42. Jesus and the Pharisees I: The Sinners. 43. Jesus and the Pharisees II: The Sabbath. 44. In Conclusion: The Dangers of Suspicion |
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I. The Hermeneutics of Suspicion. 1. Atheism for Lent. 2. On Learning When Not to Refute Atheism. 3. Help from Gilbert and Sullivan. 4. Religious Fictions Too? -- II. Freud and the Psychoanalysis of the Believing Soul. 5. Freud's Pessimism. 6. Freud's Scientism. 7. Freud's Suspicion I: Dreams and Wish Fulfillment. 8. Freud's Suspicion II: Doctrines and Wish Fulfillment. 9. On Remembering When Not to Refute Atheism. 10. Freud's Suspicion III: Doctrines and Distortion. 11. The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Victim. 12. The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Redeemer. 13. The Atheist Dr. Freud as Theologian of Original Sin. 14. Ceremonial as Defense. 15. Ceremonial as Compromise. 16. They Know Not What They Do. 17. Of Savages and Salieri. 18. Of Obedience and Sacrifice. 19. Willful Renunciation and the One-Way Covenant -- III. Marx and the Critique of Religion as Ideology. 20. Feuerbach's Bourgeois Atheism. 21. Feuerbach's Radical Atheism. 22. Marx's Radical Atheism |
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Apologetics |
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Christianity and atheism |
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Freud, Sigmund 1856-1939 Religion |
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Marx, Karl 1818-1883 Religion |
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm 1844-1900 Religion |
| Notes |
Cover title: Suspicion & faith |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939 -- Religion.
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Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 -- Religion.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Religion.
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Apologetics -- History -- 20th century.
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Apologetics.
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Christianity and atheism -- History -- 19th century.
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Christianity and atheism -- History -- 20th century.
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Christianity and atheism.
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| LC no. |
93019541 |
| ISBN |
0802806430 (paper) |
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