Criticism of religion : on Marxism and theology, II

Content: The paradoxes of Lucien Goldmann --
The dialectic of grace --
The elect and the damned --
Wagering it all --
In the world and yet not --
Theory : the tight fit of homology --
Homology --
Dialectics? --
Is Pascal among the Marxists? --
By way of conclusion : Marxism as a secular and anti-secular project --
The stumbling block of Fredric Jameson --
Supersession versus a dialectic of ideology and utopia --
Sidestepping religion --
Magic and fantasy --
Feuerbach versus Marx --
The politics of fantasy --
Apocalyptic --
By way of conclusion : towards a dialectic of religion --
The Christian communism of Rosa Luxemburg --
Tactics --
A reformer's zeal --
Betraying the spirit --
A little church history --
Anti-clericalism --
Christian communism --
Consumption versus production --
Completing Cristian communism --
Freedom of conscience --
The enticements of Karl Kautsky --
Text, history, context --
The slipperiness of sacred texts --
The Bible as a cultural product --
Reconstructing economic history --
Differentiation and slaves --
Slaves and other modes of production --
The sacred economy : prolegomena to a reconstruction --
Transitions --
Christian communism --
The forgetfulness of Julia Kristeva --
Flushing out Marx --
Monocausality, or, the taboo of the mother --
The apostle, both ways --
Other-than-human love --
Crucifying the pathologies --
Collectives --
The fables of Alain Badiou --
Banishing the one --
Theology and the event --
A generic procedure of religion? --
Pascal's miracle --
Kierkegaard's encounter --
Paul's fable --
Conclusion : necessary fables --
The conundrums of Giorgio Agamben --
The search for Paul --
Christology, or the problem of Jesus Messiah --
Faith, law and grace as placeholder of the void --
Pre-law, or trying to make sense of Paul --
Conclusion : relativising theology --
The self-exorcism of Georg Lukács --
A world abandoned by God --
Leap-frogging Christianity --
Autobiographical exorcism --
The Bible and the beekeeper's manual --
An apparent absence? --
Warm Marxism --
Autobiography --
Welshness --
The working class --
Conclusion : the vanishing mediator of the Baptist chapel.