Public Lecture: University of Auckland

I am delivering the following public lecture at the University of Auckland, on 9 September.

PUBLIC LECTURE IN THEOLOGY

What has Marxism to do with Religion?

‘Opium of the people’ is one description of religion that we find in the work of Marx and Engels. When it came to socialists in power, they were supposed to have repressed all forms of religious expression. The curious fact is that many of the major Marxists – Marx and Engels included – had a good deal more to say about religion, especial...