Roland Boer is an Australian theologian and scholar of Marxism. He was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize in 2014.

Career

Boer obtained a bachelors degree in divinity from the University of Sydney.[1] He was a professor at University of Newcastle (Australia).[1]

In 2018, he was described by Xinhua as one of the world's top experts on Marxism.[2] He teaches at the Dalian University of Technology's School of Marxism.[3]

Personal life

He runs the blog Stalin's Moustache.[1][dead link]

Notable works

Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes

Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes was released in 2009. It examines the political narratives that emerge out of the Hebrew Bible on the political right and provides a framework to critique those narratives from the political left.[4]

The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel

The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel examines the intersection of economics and religion in ancient Israel through the lens of Marxist critical theory.[5]

The Criticism of Heaven and Earth

The Criticism of Heaven and Earth is a series of books which explores the intersection of Marxism and religion. The fifth book in the series, In the Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology V, was released in 2012. In 2014 it was awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize.[1]

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners

In Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners, Boer describes Gordon H. Chang's The Coming Collapse of China (2001) as an example of the "China doomer" approach to historical nihilism.[6] Other examples cited by Boer include anti-communist tropes and atrocity propaganda, as well as "Betrayal" narratives in which Deng Xiaoping is cast as a "traitor" who supposedly undid the achievements of China's revolution and brought capitalism to China may also be characterized as historical nihilism.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Left of his field". newcastle.edu.au. Newcastle University. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  2. ^ "Marx big again in China". theaustralian.com.au/. The Australian. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  3. ^ Eysel, Benjamin. "Plötzlich eine "Demokratie"?". tagesschau.de. Tagesschau. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
  4. ^ Schweitzer, Steven J. (2011). "Roland Boer, Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes". Roland Boer,POLITICAL MYTH:ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF BIBLICAL THEMES. pp. 727–729. doi:10.31826/9781463234904-079. ISBN 9781463234904. Retrieved 28 November 2022. ((cite book)): |website= ignored (help)
  5. ^ Cherney, Kenneth A. "The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel by Roland Boer". Wisconsin Lutheran Review.
  6. ^ a b Boer, Roland (2021). Socialism with Chinese characteristics : a guide for foreigners. Singapore: Springer. pp. 10–12. ISBN 978-981-16-1622-8. OCLC 1249470522.
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