Religions A Force For Change- NeoMarxist

Question 1

Who are our 3 neo Marxists?

Answer 1

Ernst Bloch
Antoni Gramsci
Maduro

Question 2

What did Bloch believe?

Answer 2

Religion is a dual character, thus meaning it had negative and positive aspects

Question 3

Bloch- positives of religion?

Answer 3

Religion provides an idea of what perfect is so helps people see what needs to be changed in the world so gaining class consciousness. When this vision aligns with political leadership it can bring on social change

Question 4

Bloch- negatives of religion?

Answer 4

Masses internalise belief that they will be rewarded in the afterlife so they dont revolt

Question 5

What is Gramsci?

Answer 5

Humanist Marxist- looking at individual agency/own decision making

Question 6

What is hegemony and counter hegemony?

Answer 6

H- Consenting to capatalism
CH- Going against capatalism

Question 7

Agreement of Gramsci and Marxists?

Answer 7

Religion played a part in the hegemonic control of the r/c

Question 8

Disagreement of Gramsci and Marxists?

Answer 8

Opression isn’t the only role of religion.
Workers can organise against hegemony and develop a counter hegemony led by organic intellectuals (individuals from w/c who are able to mobilise others to challenge the opression of capatalism)

Question 9

Gramsci- who can take on the role organic intellectuals and examples?

Answer 9

Charasmatic individual leaders (people using religious position to influence people
E.g. liberation theology and Martin Luther King

Question 10

What does Maduro believe?

Answer 10

The liberation theology- justification of the liberation of the oppressed, the poor should be principle agents of disaprovment

Question 11

How does Maduro challenge Marxists?

Answer 11

Religion oppressed w/c however these Neo-Marxists believe religious figures want to fight against capatalism

Question 12

Maduro- examples of liberation theologists?

Answer 12

Farther Camilo Torres
Archbishop Romero
Archbishop Trevor Huddleston
Malcom X
Ghandi

Question 13

Maduro- Farther Camilo Torres?

Answer 13

A Roman Catholic priest in South America. Many Colombians poor and the rich owned 65% of land
Believing only way for change is a revolution, church didn’t support Jim
After joining Guriella movement, Torres was then later killed fighting the government, people saw him as Martyr and many priests followed him