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Religion and Socialism, Volume I

Anatoly Lunacharsky

Translated by S. Alexander Laurent

The Bolshevik "God-builder" reads the religions of the world as dreams of a just humanity.

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Contents · 36

  1. 1I
  2. 2II
  3. 3The Difficulty of Definition
  4. 4Plekhanov, Engels, Pannekoek
  5. 5Stampfer, Vandervelde
  6. 6Ludwig Feuerbach
  7. 7Joseph Dietzgen
  8. 8The Biological Definition of Religion
  9. 9Faith and Doubt
  10. 10Organism and Environment. The First Solution of the Religious Problem
  11. 11The Significance of Primitive Religion for Man
  12. 12The Priest
  13. 13The Prophet
  14. 14The Religious Contradiction and Its Reconciliation
  15. 15The Theory of Redemption
  16. 16Götterdämmerung. The Second Solution of the Religious Problem
  17. 17The Mythology of Labour
  18. 18Chapter III. Metaphysics and Historicism in Religion
  19. 19Brahmanism and Buddhism
  20. 20Mazdeism
  21. 21Chapter IV. Anthropologism and Cosmism in Religion
  22. 22The Tendencies of Judaism
  23. 23The Tendencies of Hellenism
  24. 24Chapter V. An Outline of the Development of Jewish Religiosity
  25. 25The Pre-Prophetic Period. The Emergence of Yahwism
  26. 26Class Struggle
  27. 27Isaiah
  28. 28The Mosaic Legislation
  29. 29The Biblical Spirit and the Religion of Labour
  30. 30Anthropomorphism and Harmony
  31. 31The Myth of the Superman
  32. 32The Rupture of Harmony
  33. 33The Religious Philosophy of the Hellenes
  34. 34The System of Absolute Order
  35. 35The System of Longing for Perfection
  36. 36Individualist Idealism