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Dec 12, 2023 · “Critical theory” refers to a family of theories that aim at a critique and transformation of society by integrating normative perspectives with empirically informed analysis of society’s conflicts, contradictions, and tendencies.
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Social Theory, Religion, and Critical Discourses: Critical Theory in the Postmodern Globe.
In this paper, I argue that, as an antidote to noncritical quantitative approaches within mainstream social science and theory, critical theory pro- vides a potentially more useful and politically relevant alternative than poststructuralist and postmodernist theory.
1. For the present purpose, the paper will largely focus on critical theory of religion as found in the thought of its central figures, namely, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, Fromm and Habermas.
- Andrew E. Kim
- 1996
Critical Theory of Religion. The Frankfurt School Rudolf J. Siebert,2016-04-11 Since its founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971 Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion Topics include among others category formation comparison
Bearing in mind its practical orientation towards society as a whole, my essay initially focuses on the following question: what distinctive contribution, if any, does religion make to a critical social theory? Here I concentrate on the work of (the early) Horkheimer.
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Critical theory, by contrast, nurtured a critical approach to social analysis that would detect existing social problems and promote social transformation. Critical theorists also excelled in ideology critique and discerned the important role of ideology