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Suspicion and Faith The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism

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ISBN-10: 0823218767

ISBN-13: 9780823218769

Edition: 2nd 1998

Authors: Merold Westphal, Kelly J. Clark

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List price: $39.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
The Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Atheism for Lent
On Learning When Not to Refute Atheism
Help from Gilbert and Sullivan
Religious Fictions Too?
Freud and the Psychoanalysis of the Believing Soul
Freud's Pessimism
Freud's Scientism
Freud's Suspicion I: Dreams and Wish Fulfillment
Freud's Suspicion II: Doctrines and Wish Fulfillment
On Remembering When Not to Refute Atheism
Freud's Suspicion III: Doctrines and Distortion
The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Victim
The Paranoid Dr. Schreber as Redeemer
The Atheist Dr. Freud as Theologian of Original Sin
Ceremonial as Defense
Ceremonial as Compromise
They Know Not What They Do
Of Savages and Salieri
Of Obedience and Sacrifice
Willful Renunciation and the One-Way Covenant
Marx and the Critique of Religion as Ideology
Feuerbach's Bourgeois Atheism
Feuerbach's Radical Atheism
Marx's Radical Atheism
Religion and the Christian State
Religion and the Secular State
Marxian Materialism
Religion as Ideology
Religion as Critique
Techniques of Neutralization
More Techniques of Neutralization
One Last Technique of Neutralization
Mixing Religion and Politics
Who Is the God of the Bible? Ask Pharaoh!
Third Commandment Idolatry
A "Marxist" Sermon Against the Baalization of Yahweh
Nietzsche and the Critique of Religion as Resentment
Squintingly Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche
Distinctively Yours, Friedrich Nietzsche
The Big Lie
Jews and Priests
Glittering Vices
Justice and the Fascists
Pity and the Pharisees
Jesus and the Pharisees I: The Sinners
Jesus and the Pharisees II: The Sabbath
In Conclusion: The Dangers of Suspicion
Index