Roland Boer
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
- ^ a b c d "Left of his field". newcastle.edu.au. Newcastle University. 13 December 2013. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ^ "Marx big again in China". theaustralian.com.au/. The Australian. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ^ Eysel, Benjamin. "Plötzlich eine "Demokratie"?". tagesschau.de. Tagesschau. Retrieved 28 November 2022.
- ^ 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) - ^ Cherney, Kenneth A. "The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel by Roland Boer". Wisconsin Lutheran Review.
- ^ 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.