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episode 9: Ideology, Fetishism, Apophaticism: Marxist Criticism and Christianity with Daniel Saunders
The Marxist/Christian dialogue continues!
This week Jason and Ben sat down with Daniel Saunders to discuss an article he wrote called Ideology, Fetishism, Apophaticism: Marxist Criticism and Christianity.
Daniel's paper "explores Christianity’s ambiguous relationship to capitalism by engaging Marx’s notion of the fetishism of commodities as a way of rethinking Marxism’s critique of religion from the standpoint of political economy. "
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/nbfr.12642
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