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This conference invites scholars to examine the intersections between left-wing and\/or revolutionary politics and alternative religiosity over the past two centuries. Alternative religious ideas and practices have served as powerful resources for the political imagination, social critique, and revolutionary mobilization. Yet the relationship between alternative religious currents and emancipatory politics remains underexplored \u2013 partly due to the prevalent narrative that religion and left-wing ideology are inherently antagonistic. While anti-clerical and materialist atheist positions have certainly been prominent within socialist, anarchist, and communist worldviews, there have also always been movements and individuals within these same contexts that have drawn on alternative religious traditions in order to further and even radicalize their critiques of capitalism, the state, and authority. Furthermore, processes of individualization and pluralization over the past two centuries have created novel opportunities to employ religious traditions as resources for radical and revolutionary politics. This explains entanglements, for instance, as diverse as spiritualist and labor movements in nineteenth-century England, or the role of techno-mystical movements like Cosmism in the Russian Revolution. On other, and often more intellectual fronts, alternative religious traditions have served as sources of inspiration for utopian constructs and critical theories of society, whether for socioeconomic (socialist) blueprints in the nineteenth century (e.g., Fourierism and Saint-Simonianism), or in attempts to conceptualize and break free from the \u201ciron cage\u201d (Weber) of capitalist modernity by means of religious, mystical, and esoteric concepts (e.g. in the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory). While often located in Europe, the above phenomena cannot be fully understood in geographic isolation but also need to be placed in their global contexts, for instance concerning the question of colonialism (e.g. utopian-socialist settlements in Africa and America).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notions like \u201calternative religiosity\u201d are of course historically contingent, relative to hegemonic discourse, and subject to negotiation. Throughout history, such contested terrain has given rise to labels such as \u201cesoteric\u201d, \u201coccult\u201d, \u201cmystical\u201d, and \u201cheretical\u201d. These labels have often been used polemically, but also affirmatively by actors seeking to distinguish themselves from forms of religious \u201corthodoxy\u201d and who often combined them with radical political ideas and currents. As such terms have also found their way into scholarly debates, they require scholarly attention and critical examination in their own right. The same goes for normatively charged terms such as \u201cleft-wing\u201d, \u201cradical\u201d, and \u201crevolutionary\u201d, which we likewise invite scholars to critically examine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using (post-)industrial modernity as a broad historical framework, we invite contributions that examine the entanglements between left-wing and\/or revolutionary movements and figures and spiritual, mystical, esoteric, and heterodox traditions. We are interested in how alternative religious currents have played a role in mobilizing people to pursue radical social change. Scholars are warmly invited to submit proposals for 25 minute presentations on the following questions and topics, among others:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 \u201cUtopian socialism\u201d and alternative religion
\u2013 Entanglements of Mesmerism, spiritualism, and socialism
\u2013 The varieties of left-wing and spiritual\/cultural Zionism
\u2013 Anarchism and mysticism in the early 20th century
\u2013 Occultism and anti-colonial struggle
\u2013 Esotericism and radical climate activism
\u2013 Intersections of gender, socialism, and religion
\u2013 Terms like \u201cmessianism\u201d, \u201capocalypticism\u201d, \u201cmillenarianism\u201d
\u2013 The politics of religious memory (e.g. the German Peasants\u2019 War in communist historiography)
\u2013 Representations of religious radicalism in art, literature and film
\u2013 Critical theories of \u201ccapitalism as religion\u201d (W. Benjamin)
\u2013 Critical theory, religion, and (emancipatory) politics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proposals should include a title, an abstract of 200\u2013300 words, and a short biographical note of up to 50 words. A publication of the conference proceedings is planned. Please send your proposal until August 31, 2026 to religion-andrevolution@theologie.uni-goettingen.de. Scholars will be notified about the status of their submissions by mid-October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For non-presenters who wish to attend, please register at this email-address: religion-and-revolution@theologie.uni-goettingen.de.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Religion and Revolution: Alternative Religiosity and Radical Politics in the (Post-)Industrial Age (1800-2000)<\/em>, in: H-Soz-Kult, 26.06.2026, https:\/\/www.hsozkult.de\/event\/id\/event-163257<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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