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  • Socialism with Chinese Characteristics

    A Guide for Foreigners

    by Roland Boer ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book covers the whole system of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, dealing with Deng Xiaoping’s theory, the socialist market economy, a moderately well-off (Xiaokang) society, China’s practice and theory of socialist democracy, human rights, and Xi Jinping’s Marxism. In short, the resolute focus is the Reform and Opening-Up.Socialism with Chinese Characteristics is one of the most ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Socialism in Power

    On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance

    by Roland Boer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines the historical development—in practice and theory—of governance in socialist systems. With more than a century of such development from many parts of the world, including the Soviet Union, China, and the DPRK (North Korea), it is possible to gain much from careful study of their political systems.But what is the nature of this socialist governance? It is abundantly clear that ... Read more

    $154.99 CAD

  • Marxist Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Second Edition

    by Roland Boer ...
    The only large-scale critical introduction to Western Marxism for biblical criticism. Roland Boer introduces the core concepts of major figures in the tradition, specifically Althusser, Gramsci, Deleuze and Guattari, Eagleton, Lefebvre, Lukács, Adorno, Bloch, Negri, Jameson, and Jameson. Throughout, Boer shows how Marxist criticism is relevant to biblical criticism, in terms of approaches to the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Symposia

    Dialogues Concerning the History of Biblical Interpretation

    by Roland Boer ...
    Series series BibleWorld
    'Symposia' illuminates the central issues and concerns of biblical studies by presenting a series of stories. The model for the stories is the ancient Greek idea of the symposium, a 'sitting down together for the purpose of drinking'. In Plato's writings, the symposium becomes a genre of writing with Socrates at its centre, a character who perpetually questions in order to develop the pursuit of ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Friedrich Engels and the Foundations of Socialist Governance

    by Roland Boer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book states that the political systems of China, Vietnam, Cuba and other socialist countries are showing distinct maturity and ability to deal effectively with challenges – the most recent being the COVID-19 pandemic. In order to understand how they have developed their structures, it is time to return to the roots of the Marxist tradition and re-examine the question of socialist governance. ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel

    by Roland Boer ...
    The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel offers a new reconstruction of the economic context of the Bible and of ancient Israel. It argues that the key to ancient economies is with those who worked on the land rather than in intermittent and relatively weak kingdoms and empires. Drawing on sophisticated economic theory (especially the Régulation School) and textual and archaeological resources, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Secularism and Biblical Studies

    by Roland Boer ...
    Series series BibleWorld
    What is secular biblical criticism? 'Secularism and Biblical Studies' presents a selection of essays that examine the nature of secular biblical studies and its hermeneutical principles. The essays outline and analyse debates within biblical studies over the issue of secularism and explore the interplay of atheism, agnosticism and faith in the interpretation of the Bible. The book argues for a ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Idols of Nations

    Biblical Myth at the Origins of Capitalism

    by Christina Petterson, Roland Boer, Dalian University of Technology ...
    Roland Boer and Christina Petterson here produce a critical survey showing that the rise of capitalist theory was shaped by the way different economic philosophers—Smith, Hobbes, Grotius, Malthus, Locke––read the Bible. Invoking Jeremiah (14:22) and Adam Smith—who took the title of his Wealth of Nations from Isaiah (61:6, 66:12)—they show that early theories of capitalism were shaped by particular ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Knockin' on Heaven's Door

    The Bible and Popular Culture

    by Roland Boer ...
    Series series Biblical Limits
    Knockin' On Heaven's Door offers a critically sophisticated and truly interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between biblical studies and contemporary culture.Specific biblical texts are examined in the light of cultural criticism and areas of popular culture including pornography, heavy metal music and McDonald's hamburgers in the light of biblical criticism. ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Political Myth

    On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes

    by Roland Boer, Creston Davis, Philip Goodchild, Kenneth Surin ...
    Series series New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology
    In this provocative and necessary work, Roland Boer, a leading biblical scholar and cultural theorist, develops a political myth for the Left: a powerful narrative to be harnessed in support of progressive policy. Boer focuses on foundational stories in the Hexateuch, the first six books of the Bible, from Genesis through Joshua. He contends that the “primal story” that runs from Creation, through ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Stalin: From Theology to the Philosophy of Socialism in Power

    by Roland Boer ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book not only explicates Stalin’s thoughts, but thinks with and especially through Stalin. It argues that Stalin often thought at the intersections between theology and Marxist political philosophy – especially regarding key issues of socialism in power. Careful and sustained attention to Stalin’s written texts is the primary approach used. The result is a series of arresting efforts to ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

  • Class Struggle in the New Testament

    by Christina Petterson, Taylor Weaver, Bruce Worthington, Robert J. Myles, James G. Crossley, Robyn Faith Walsh, Christopher B. Zeichmann, Roland Boer, Alan H. Cadwallader, Neil Elliott0, Deane Galbraith1, Sarah E. Rollens2 ...
    Class Struggle in the New Testament engages the political and economic realities of the first century to unmask the mediation of class through several New Testament texts and traditions. Essays span a range of subfields, presenting class struggle as the motor force of history by responding to recent debates, historical data, and new evidence on the political-economic world of Jesus, Paul, and the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD