The Critique of Religion and Religion's Critique : Haymarket Books : 9781642596076 : 1642596078 : 31 Aug 2021 : This impressive volume brings together numerous essays honouring the life and work of the Critical Theorist, Rudolf J. Siebert. His ?dialectical religiology' rooted in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School?especially the work of Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, Leo Löwenthal, and Jürgen Habermas?is both a theory and method of understanding religion's critique of modernity and modernity's critique of religion. According to the Enlightenment and its most important thinkers, i.e. Kant, Hegel, and Marx religion is understood to be dialectical in nature. It contains within it both revolutionary and emancipatory elements, but also reactionary and regressive elements, which perpetuate mankind's continual debasement, enslavement, and oppression. Thus, religion by nature is conflicted within itself and thus stands against itself. Di