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Marxist theories of religion
- Ideology
- Religion is an ideological weapon to justify the suffering of the poor
- Misleads the poor into believing their suffering is virtuous and they will be rewarded in the afterlife
- Creates a false consciousness
- Creates a false consciousness
- Misleads the poor into believing their suffering is virtuous and they will be rewarded in the afterlife
- Lenin
- Described religion as a 'spiritual gin'
- An intoxicant doled out to the masses by the RC to confuse them and keep them in their place
- Creates a 'mystical fog'
- Creates a 'mystical fog'
- An intoxicant doled out to the masses by the RC to confuse them and keep them in their place
- Described religion as a 'spiritual gin'
- Religion is an ideological weapon to justify the suffering of the poor
- Alienation
- Capitalism causes alienation
- Workers are alienated because they don't own what they produce and have no control over the production process
- Workers are alienated because they don't own what they produce and have no control over the production process
- In the dehumanising conditions of the WC they turn to religion for consolation
- Acts as an opiate to dull the pain of exploitation
- Promise of afterlife distracts from the misery and true source of suffering
- Promise of afterlife distracts from the misery and true source of suffering
- Acts as an opiate to dull the pain of exploitation
- Capitalism causes alienation
- Evaluation
- Marx shows how religion may be a tool of oppression but ignores positive functions
- Some Marxists, eg Althusser, reject the concept of alienation as unscientific and so this would make the concept an inadequate basis for a theory of religion
- Religion may not function effectively as an ideology - EG pre-capitalist society where Christianity was a major element of RC ideology it had limited impact on peasantry
- Marx shows how religion may be a tool of oppression but ignores positive functions
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