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SUMMARY:IAHR congress ||| Paper
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DESCRIPTION:Enslaving the Creator: Analogies of Religion and Capital in th
 e early and late Works of Karl Marx\nJens Schlamelcher (CERES)\nWhat are t
 he differences between 'economy' and 'religion'? How can we grasp the rela
 tion between these two 'spheres'\, 'fields' or 'functional systems'? These
  questions are still paramount in the sociology of religion. Recent approa
 ches such as proposed in the new paradigm of economics of religion tend to
  deny any differences between them\, conceiving religionas just another 'm
 arket'. As this paper will show\, the classic Karl Marx has found more sub
 tle answers to these questions. This presentation aims to revisit his insi
 ghts and show the intrinsic analogies between religion and capital in his 
 theory. Marx never questioned Feuerbach's thesis of religion as a human in
 vention resulting in subordination. However\, he revealed that capital fun
 ctions in precisely the same way on a material plane. Second\, Marx proved
  that capitalist modes of exploitation can\, due to its generic production
  of 'false consciousness'\, ignore religion as a primary justification for
  material exploitation.Thus\, Marx offers an understanding of both moderni
 ty and re-sacralization at the same time.\nThis paper will be presented in
  panel Economy and religion beyond neoclassical economics of religion (28-
 320 | 134)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/en/events/iahrpaper2807_31/
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