TY - JOUR A1 - Siebert, Rudolf J. A1 - et al., T1 - The Critical Theory of Religion: From Having to Being JF - Critical Research on Religion, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2013), pp. 33-42. [Online ISSN 2050-3040] [scholarworks.gvsu.edu/soc_articles/2/] N2 - In our essay we trace the evolution of the critical theory of religion, or comparative dialectical religiology, out of the critical theory of society of the Institute for Social Research or the Frankfurt School. For us, the history of religions reflects the history of humanity’s intellectual and spiritual evolution. As we developed our critical theory of religion, we have tried to supersede concretely the great accomplishments of three generations of critical theorists, particularly in the field of religion. One main theme of our critical theory of religion is the dialectic of two modes of existence: having and being; egoism and altruism. As we determinately negated the critical theory of society into our comparative dialectical religiology, we also penetrated deeper into its roots in the works of Kant and Hegel, Marx and Freud, Judaism and Christianity, particularly into the mystical theology of the great dialectician Meister Eckhart and of his many modern followers. We conclude our essay with the vision of the City of Being. Y1 - 2013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Siebert, Rudolf J. T1 - The Critical Theory of Religion, Article, Comparative Religion, Western Michigan University, Kalamzoo, Michigan, USA 2001, 56 pp. [rudolfjsiebert.org/web_publications/CT_Intro.pdf] N2 - The critical theory of subject, society, culture and history of the Frankfurt School originated in the experience of the horror of World War I. Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Theodor W. Adorno, Friedrich Pollock, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, Alfred Sohn-Rethel and other, later critical theorists tried to make sense out of the senseless war experience in Frankfurt a. M., Berlin, Stuttgart, or elsewhere, by exploring the writings of Immanuel Kant, Friedrich W.J. Schelling, Georg W.F. Hegel, Arthur Schopenhauer, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Siebert, Rudolf J. ED - Byrd, Dustin J. T1 - Hegel and the Critical Theory of Religion, ed. by Dustin J. Byrd, Kalamazoo / Michigan (Ekpyrosis Press) 2021, 349 pp. Y1 - 2021 ER - TY - BOOK A1 - Siebert, Rudolf J. T1 - The Critical Theory of Religion: The Frankfurt School, Lanham, MD, USA (Scarecrow Press) 2001 [First reprint from Walter de Gruyter, 1985] 736 pp. Y1 - 2001 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Siebert, Rudolf J. T1 - Fromm's Critical Theory of Religion: From Marxism and Psychoanalysis to Negative Theology. Thesis 1977, 80 pp. (Typescript). Y1 - 1977 ER -