AlthusserandTheology Historical Materialism Book Series EditorialBoard SébastienBudgen(Paris) DavidBroder(Rome) SteveEdwards(London) JuanGrigera(London) MarcelvanderLinden(Amsterdam) PeterThomas(London) volume124 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/hm Althusser and Theology Religion,PoliticsandPhilosophy Editedby AgonHamza leiden | boston LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Names:Hamza,Agon,1984-editor. Title:Althusserandtheology:religion,politics,andphilosophy/edited byAgonHamza. Description:Leiden;Boston:Brill,2016.|Series:Historicalmaterialismbook series,ISSN1570-1522;volume124|Includesbibliographicalreferences andindex. Identifiers:LCCN2016026219(print)|LCCN2016027064(ebook)|ISBN 9789004291546(hardback):alk.paper)|ISBN9789004291553(e-book) Subjects:LCSH:Althusser,Louis,1918-1990.|Religion.|Theology.| Philosophy,French–20thcentury. Classification:LCCB2430.A474A65252016(print)|LCCB2430.A474(ebook)| DDC194–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2016026219 WantorneedOpenAccess?BrillOpenoffersyouthechoicetomakeyourresearchfreelyaccessibleonline inexchangeforapublicationcharge.Reviewyourvariousoptionsonbrill.com/brill-open. TypefacefortheLatin,Greek,andCyrillicscripts:“Brill”.Seeanddownload:brill.com/brill-typeface. issn1570-1522 isbn978-90-04-29154-6(hardback) isbn978-90-04-29155-3(e-book) Copyright2016byKoninklijkeBrillnv,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillnvincorporatestheimprintsBrill,BrillHes&DeGraaf,BrillNijhoff,BrillRodopiand HoteiPublishing. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,translated,storedinaretrievalsystem, ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recordingorotherwise, withoutpriorwrittenpermissionfromthepublisher. AuthorizationtophotocopyitemsforinternalorpersonaluseisgrantedbyKoninklijkeBrillnvprovided thattheappropriatefeesarepaiddirectlytoTheCopyrightClearanceCenter,222RosewoodDrive, Suite910,Danvers,ma01923,usa.Feesaresubjecttochange. Thisbookisprintedonacid-freepaperandproducedinasustainablemanner. PërVetonin,përshkaktëmospërfilljesndajreligjionit ∵ Contents Acknowledgements ix ListofContributors x Introduction:Althusser’sChristianMarxism 1 AgonHamza 1 AlthusserandReligion 7 StanislasBreton 2 Althusser’sReligiousRevolution 18 RolandBoer 3 AlthusserandtheProblemofEschatology 31 WarrenMontag 4 ChristianityasaCondition 47 AgonHamza 5 SplittingAlthusseratthePointofReligion 64 GabrielTupinambá 6 BetweenHegelandMarx:HistoryandTheologyintheEarly Althusser 89 GeoffPfeifer 7 Althusser’sSpinozismandtheProblemofTheology 101 KnoxPeden 8 EschatologyàlaCantonade:AlthusserbeyondDerrida 115 VittorioMorfino 9 PaulofTarsus,ThinkeroftheConjuncture 129 TedStolze 10 Fromthe‘HiddenGod’totheMaterialismoftheEncounter:Althusser andPascal 152 PanagiotisSotiris viii contents 11 Fromthe‘InternationalofDecentFeelings’totheInternationalof DecentActions:Althusser’sRelevancefortheEnvironmental ConjunctureofLateCapitalism 168 JanaTsoneva 12 BattlesofNostalgicProportion:TheTransformationsof Islam-as-Historical-ForceintheIdeologicalMatrixofaSelf-Affirming ‘West’ 182 IsaBlumi Bibliography 199 Index 209 Acknowledgements WorkingoneditedvolumesistheultimateAlthusseriangesture:acollective workona‘particular’topic.AvolumeonAlthusser,therefore,isaproofofthis proposition.IwanttoparticularlythankRolandBoerforthediscussionsinthe veryearlystagesofconceptualisingthisproject.TedStolzebecameafriendand a comrade and I want to thank him for his discussions, generosity and help throughoutthisproject.PanagiotisSotirisandGeoffPfeiferwereveryhelpful indiscussingvariousaspectsofthevolumesincetheinitialphases. I also want to thank Serene John-Richards, Frank Ruda and Rodrigo Gon- salveswhowereofagreathelpthroughouttheproject.Thisbookbenefiteda lotfrommydiscussionswiththem. Fromtheverybeginning,GabrielTupinambáwasafellowtravellerinthis volume.Mostofmythinkingisnotseparablefromthediscussionswithhim, andthisvolumeowesalottohim.