Antonio Gramsci and the Question of Religion

Bruce Grelle is Professor and Director of the Religion and Public Education Project in the Department of Comparative Religion and Humanities at California State University, Chico, USA.

Bruce Grelle’s excellent new study of Gramsci’s thought shows just how much Gramsci's revisionist Marxist ideas (of hegemony, culture, and religion itself, among others) can contribute to contemporary studies of religious ethics. Thinking with and beyond Gramsci, Grelle articulates powerful theoretical tools to analyze the multifaceted political and social influence of religious practices and discourses. - Aaron Stalnaker, Indiana University, USAThis is a highly original and creative study of an often-ignored figure whose thought has much to offer to contemporary work in the study of religious ethics. Grelle’s book is grounded in solid scholarship; it is persuasive in its interpretations of Gramsci; it is creative and courageous in its own constructive argumentation; and, most importantly, it is written in highly accessible and lucid prose. - Sumner B. Twiss, Florida State University and Brown University, USA

• Introduction1. Religious Ethics, Ideology, and Culture2. Antonio Gramsci and "The Question of Religion or Worldview"3. Myth, Religion, and the Intellectuals4. World Order in a Global Age5. Religion, Ethics, and the Discourses of Social Change6. Religion, Ethics, and Ideology