Bloch’s Münzer and the Horizons of History

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Critical Research on Religion Pub Date : 2022-09-14 DOI:10.1177/20503032221124554

Christina Petterson

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This essay springs from my current project, namely an introduction to and translation of Ernst Bloch ’ s Thomas Münzer: Theologian of the Revolution funded by CenSAMM, the Centre for the Critical Study of Apocalyptic and Millenarian Movements. The essay here will focus mainly on history and community, after a bit of background. Importantly, the issues raised here are only addressed within a small Western context. Christianity in its various forms plays very different roles in non-Anglo/European countries, and class struggle as it is thought of in this essay is also very limited to small centers of former empires and is not meant in its global anti-imperialist context. This is primarily due to the material itself. My own overarching interest in various texts from different periods of the past, is the sense of history and what governs our understanding of it. This is something I have been working with in different ways over the past years, looking at both Francis Fukuyama ’ s essay on 1989 as the end of history, New Testament understandings of class struggle as history, and also the meaning of history and the questions we are urged to ask, and which ones we are urged to avoid.

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布洛赫的慕尼黑与历史的视野

这篇文章源于我目前的一个项目，即对恩斯特·布洛赫的《托马斯·梅泽尔:革命的神学家》的介绍和翻译，该项目由CenSAMM(世界末日和千禧年运动批判研究中心)资助。在介绍了一些背景之后，本文将主要关注历史和社区。重要的是，这里提出的问题只在西方的小背景下得到解决。各种形式的基督教在非盎格鲁/欧洲国家扮演着非常不同的角色，而本文所认为的阶级斗争也非常局限于前帝国的小中心，并不意味着在全球反帝国主义的背景下。这主要是由于材料本身。对于过去不同时期的各种文本，我最感兴趣的是历史感，以及是什么支配着我们对历史的理解。在过去的几年里，我一直在用不同的方式研究这个问题，我研究了弗朗西斯·福山关于1989年历史终结的文章，新约对阶级斗争历史的理解，以及历史的意义，以及我们迫切需要问的问题，以及我们迫切需要避免的问题。

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期刊介绍： Critical Research on Religion is a peer-reviewed, international journal focusing on the development of a critical theoretical framework and its application to research on religion. It provides a common venue for those engaging in critical analysis in theology and religious studies, as well as for those who critically study religion in the other social sciences and humanities such as philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, and literature. A critical approach examines religious phenomena according to both their positive and negative impacts. It draws on methods including but not restricted to the critical theory of the Frankfurt School, Marxism, post-structuralism, feminism, psychoanalysis, ideological criticism, post-colonialism, ecocriticism, and queer studies. The journal seeks to enhance an understanding of how religious institutions and religious thought may simultaneously serve as a source of domination and progressive social change. It attempts to understand the role of religion within social and political conflicts. These conflicts are often based on differences of race, class, ethnicity, region, gender, and sexual orientation – all of which are shaped by social, political, and economic inequity. The journal encourages submissions of theoretically guided articles on current issues as well as those with historical interest using a wide range of methodologies including qualitative, quantitative, and archival. It publishes articles, review essays, book reviews, thematic issues, symposia, and interviews.