David Bates is Principal Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is the Director of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Politics and International Relations. His academic interests are focused primarily in the area of contemporary radical political thought. Iain MacKenzie is Senior Lecturer in Politics and the Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent, UK. His research is situated within the critical tradition of modern European thought.Sean Sayers is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent, UK. He has written extensively on topics of Hegelian and Marxist philosophy and in the areas of social philosophy, ethics, theory of knowledge, metaphysics and logic. He has also written on Freud and psychoanalysis and is currently working on issues in aesthetics.

'At a time when Pope Francis at one extreme and ISIS on the other have forced us to reconsider our views on what religion is and can be, Marx's easily misinterpreted writings on religion deserve another - and, this time, closer - reading. And who better to guide us through them than the greatest living scholar on this subject, David McLellan - with the kind of balanced critical help he receives from the impressive group of authors represented in this volume? HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.' - Professor Bertell Ollman, Dept. of Politics, NYU Author of Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society, Dialectical Investigations, and Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method

• Introduction 1. McLellan, Marx, and Method 2. McLellan’s Marx: Interpreting Thought, Changing Life 3. The Concept of Alienation and the Development of Marx’s Thought 4. David McLellan and Continuity in Marx 5. Marx’s confrontation with free market dogma: the latent moral argument in Capital 6.Why Marxist Humanism is Wrong 7. Beyond the Narrow Horizon of Bourgeois Right 8. Simone Weil 9. Marx and Atheism 10. Ideology, Ideologies and Ideologues 11. Replies and Concluding Remarks

David Bates is Principal Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. He is the Director of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in Politics and International Relations. His academic interests are focused primarily in the area of contemporary radical political thought. Iain MacKenzie is Senior Lecturer in Politics and the Co-Director of the Centre for Critical Thought at the University of Kent, UK. His research is situated within the critical tradition of modern European thought.Sean Sayers is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kent, UK. He has written extensively on topics of Hegelian and Marxist philosophy and in the areas of social philosophy, ethics, theory of knowledge, metaphysics and logic. He has also written on Freud and psychoanalysis and is currently working on issues in aesthetics.

'At a time when Pope Francis at one extreme and ISIS on the other have forced us to reconsider our views on what religion is and can be, Marx's easily misinterpreted writings on religion deserve another - and, this time, closer - reading. And who better to guide us through them than the greatest living scholar on this subject, David McLellan - with the kind of balanced critical help he receives from the impressive group of authors represented in this volume? HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.' - Professor Bertell Ollman, Dept. of Politics, NYU Author of Alienation: Marx's Conception of Man in Capitalist Society, Dialectical Investigations, and Dance of the Dialectic: Steps in Marx's Method

• Introduction 1. McLellan, Marx, and Method 2. McLellan’s Marx: Interpreting Thought, Changing Life 3. The Concept of Alienation and the Development of Marx’s Thought 4. David McLellan and Continuity in Marx 5. Marx’s confrontation with free market dogma: the latent moral argument in Capital 6.Why Marxist Humanism is Wrong 7. Beyond the Narrow Horizon of Bourgeois Right 8. Simone Weil 9. Marx and Atheism 10. Ideology, Ideologies and Ideologues 11. Replies and Concluding Remarks