Marx: Religion, Ideology, Power, and Change
Religion and Marxism - An Introduction - Paul-Francois Tremlett
Paul-Francois Tremlett [+]
Open University
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Paul-François Tremlett is a senior lecturer in religious studies at the Open University.
His research interests include classical and contemporary anthropological and sociological
theories of religion and the broad constitution of religion as a site of study in societies experiencing rapid social change. He is the author of Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change: Sovereignties and Disruptions (Bloomsbury 2021)
and co-edited Ritual and Democracy: Protests, Publics and Performances (Equinox, 2020). He also co-edits the Bloomsbury Series ‘Religion, Space
and Place’.
Description
This chapter considers some of the different ways Marx talked about religions in his writings before looking more closely at how they are implicated in Marx’s base-superstructure model of society, particularly in relation to the concept of ideology.