Religion has always been an object of philosophical analysis and a platform for political practice. Philosophical thinking is unimaginable without its relation to religion, whether it negates or affirms the latter. Indeed, religion serves as a condition for philosophy. Althusser and Theology intends not so much to fill a gap in Althusser scholarship as to contribute to the contemporary radical left.

Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Althusser's Christian Marxism Agon Hamza Chapter 1 Althusser and Religion Stanislas Breton Chapter 2 Althusser's Religious Revolution Roland Boer Chapter 3 Althusser and the Problem of Eschatology Warren Montag Chapter 4 Christianity as a Condition Agon Hamza Chapter 5 Splitting Althusser at the Point of Religion Gabriel Tupinamba Chapter 6 Between Hegel and Marx: History and Theology in the Early Althusser Geoff Pfeifer Chapter 7 Althusser's Spinozism and the Problem of Theology Knox Peden Chapter 8 Escathology a la Cantonade: Althusser beyond Derrida Vittorio Morfino Chapter 9 Paul of Tarsus, Thinker of the Conjuncture Ted Stolze Chapter 10 From the 'Hidden God' to the Materialism of the Encounter: Althusser and Pascal Panagiotis Sotiris Chapter 11 From the 'International of Decent Feelings' to the International of Decent Actions: Althusser's Relevance for the Environmental Conjuncture of Late Capitalism Jana Tsoneva Chapter 12 Battles of Nostalgic Proportion: The Transformations of Islam-as-Historical-Force in the Ideological Matrix of a Self-Affirming 'West' Isa Blumi Bibliography Index