Career

Notable works

Political Myth: On the Use and Abuse of Biblical Themes

The Sacred Economy of Ancient Israel

The Criticism of Heaven and Earth

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners

Works

Books

• — (1997).Novel Histories: The Fiction of Biblical Criticism. Playing the Texts. Sheffield:Sheffield Academic Press.ISBN 978-1-85075-835-8.
• — (1999).Knockin' on heaven's door: the Bible and popular culture. Biblical limits. London; New York:Routledge.ISBN 978-0-415-19410-5.
• — (2001).Last stop before Antarctica: the Bible and postcolonialism in Australia. Sheffield:Sheffield Academic Press.ISBN 978-1-84127-170-5.
• — (2003).Marxist criticism of the Bible. London; New York:T&T Clark.ISBN 978-0-8264-6327-2.OCLC 54054313.
• — (2007).Bakhtin and genre theory in biblical studies. Atlanta:Society of Biblical Literature.ISBN 978-90-04-15737-8.
• — (2007).Criticism of heaven: on Marxism and theology. Historical Materialism Book Series. Vol. I. Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston:Brill.ISBN 978-90-04-16111-5.OCLC 141384381.
• — (2007).Rescuing the Bible. Blackwell Manifestos. Malden, Mass.:Blackwell.ISBN 978-1-4051-7020-8.
• — (2008).Last stop before Antarctica: the Bible and postcolonialism in Australia. Semeia Studies (2nd ed.). Leiden; Boston:Brill.ISBN 978-90-04-13080-7.OCLC 213466101.
• —; Økland, Jorunn (2008).Marxist feminist criticism of the Bible. Bible in the Modern World. Sheffield:Sheffield Phoenix Press.ISBN 978-1-906055-35-6.
• — (2009).Criticism of religion: on Marxism and theology, II. Historical Materialism Book Series. Vol. 22. Leiden; Boston:Brill.ISBN 978-90-04-17646-1.OCLC 317573556.
• — (2009).Political grace: the revolutionary theology of John Calvin (1st ed.). Louisville, Ky.:Westminster John Knox Press.ISBN 978-0-664-23393-8.OCLC 300279962.
• — (2009).Political myth: on the use and abuse of Biblical themes. New Slant. Durham:Duke University Press.ISBN 978-0-8223-4335-6.OCLC 255016937.
• — (2011).Criticism of theology: on Marxism and theology, III. Historical Materialism Book Series. Vol. 27. Leiden; Boston:Brill Publishers.ISBN 978-90-04-18974-4.OCLC 727950316.
• — (2012).Criticism of earth: on Marx, Engels, and theology, IV. Historical Materialism Book Series. Vol. 35. Leiden:Brill Publishers.ISBN 9789004225589.OCLC 796383691.
• — (2012).Nick Cave: a study of love, death, and apocalypse. Studies in Popular Music. Sheffield:Equinox Publishing.ISBN 9781908049674.OCLC 730414507.
• — (2013).Lenin, religion, and theology. New Approaches to Religion and Power (1st ed.). New York, NY:Palgrave Macmillan.ISBN 978-1-137-32389-7.OCLC 822532801.
• —; Petterson, Christina (2014).Idols of nations: biblical myth at the origins of capitalism. Minneapolis:1517 Media.ISBN 978-1-4514-6544-0.OCLC 866619973.
• — (2014).In the vale of tears: on Marxism and theology, V. Historical Materialism Book Series. Vol. 52. Leiden:Brill Publishers.ISBN 978-90-04-25232-5.OCLC 862050346.
• — (2014).Secularism and biblical studies. BibleWorld. London:Routledge.ISBN 9781315478531.OCLC 980282933.
• — (2014).Symposia: dialogues concerning the history of biblical interpretation. BibleWorld. London:Routledge.ISBN 9781315711225.OCLC 958109369.
• — (2015).Marxist criticism of the Hebrew Bible (2nd ed.). London:T&T Clark.ISBN 978-0-567-12870-6.OCLC 896822487.
• — (2015).The sacred economy of ancient Israel. Library of ancient Israel. Louisville, Ky.:Westminster John Knox Press.ISBN 978-1-61164-555-2.OCLC 909903384.
• — (2017).Stalin: From Theology to the Philosophy of Socialism in Power. Singapore:Springer.doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6367-1.ISBN 978-981-10-6367-1.
• —; Petterson, Christina (2017).Time of troubles: a new economic framework for early Christianity. Minneapolis:1517 Media.ISBN 978-1-5064-0631-2.OCLC 966572632.
• — (2021).Friedrich Engels and the Foundations of Socialist Governance. SpringerBriefs in Philosophy. Singapore:Springer.doi:10.1007/978-981-16-4695-9.ISBN 978-981-16-4694-2.OCLC 1275357049.
• — (2021).Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners. Singapore:Springer.doi:10.1007/978-981-16-1622-8.ISBN 978-981-16-1622-8.OCLC 1249470522.
• — (2023).Socialism in Power: On the History and Theory of Socialist Governance. Singapore:Springer.doi:10.1007/978-981-19-5414-6.ISBN 978-981-19-5413-9.OCLC 1372399583.

Book chapters

• — (2003). "Sanctuary and womb: Henri Lefebvre and the production of ancient space". In —; Conrad, Edgar W. (eds.).Redirected travel: alternative journeys and places in biblical studies.Journal for the Study of the Old Testament. London; New York:T&T Clark. pp. 162–184.ISBN 978-0-8264-6766-9.OCLC 276838400.
• — (2012). "The Anomaly of Interpretation; A Web of Fascination: Marxism and The Bible". In Conrad, Edgar W.; Carden, Michael; Kelso, Julie; — (eds.).The one who reads may run: essays in honour of Edgar W. Conrad. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies. New York, NY:T&T Clark.ISBN 978-0-567-60217-6.OCLC 761380392.
• — (2020). "Lenin and Non-Antagonistic Contradictions". In Joffre-Eichhorn, Hjalmar Jorge; Anderson, Patrick (eds.).Lenin 150. Hamburg: Kick Ass books. pp. 79–88.ISBN 978-3-00-066212-6.
• — (2020). "The State and Minority Nationalities (Ethnic Groups) in China". In Ratuva, Steven (ed.).The Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity. Singapore:Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 93–107.ISBN 978-981-13-2899-2.
• — (2023). "The Philosophical Economist: The Contribution of Cheng Enfu".Innovative Marxist School in China: Comments by International Scholars on Cheng Enfu's Academic Thoughts. Berlin, Germany: Canut International Publishers. pp. 367–390.ISBN 978-605-4923-74-8.

Articles

• —; Chin, Kenpa (24 June 2016)."Chinese Christian communism in the early twentieth century".Religion, State and Society.44 (2):96–110.doi:10.1080/09637494.2016.1169752.ISSN 0963-7494.
• — (31 March 2016)."Concerning the "Warm Stream" within Marxism".International Critical Thought.6 (1):13–28.doi:10.1080/21598282.2016.1142384.ISSN 2159-8282.
• — (10 October 2017)."After October: Towards a Theory of the Socialist State".International Critical Thought.7 (3):309–326.doi:10.1080/21598282.2017.1355742.ISSN 2159-8282.
• — (4 April 2019)."Marx's Ambivalence: State, Proletarian Dictatorship and Commune".International Critical Thought.9 (1):109–127.doi:10.1080/21598282.2019.1585603.ISSN 2159-8282.
• — (January 2020)."Seeking a Xiaokang Society: Deng Xiaoping and the Reinterpretation of the Confucian Tradition in Chinese Marxism"(PDF).Berlin Journal of Critical Theory.4 (1):181–210.
• —; Yan, Ping (7 May 2021).""Not Some Other -ism"—On Some Western Marxist Misrepresentations of Chinese Socialism".International Critical Thought.11 (2):171–189.doi:10.1080/21598282.2021.1923171.ISSN 2159-8282.
• — (12 May 2021)."Socialism and the Market: Returning to the East European Debate".New Political Economy.28 (1):1–12.doi:10.1080/13563467.2021.1926958.ISSN 1356-3467.
• — (January 2023)."Inner Transcendence and "Beyond": The Debate in Chinese Philosophy"(PDF).Berlin Journal of Critical Theory.7 (1):83–102.eISSN 2567-4056.ISSN 2567-4048.
• — (24 February 2023)."A Truncated Marxism: On the Ideological Structure of Western Marxism".Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences.16 (2):145–170.doi:10.1007/s40647-023-00366-0.ISSN 1674-0750.
• — (March 2023)."The End of Western Marxism? On the Unravelling of an Ideological Structure".Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences.16 (2):123–143.doi:10.1007/s40647-023-00369-x.ISSN 1674-0750.
• — (31 December 2023)."Abstract or Concrete Utopia? Concerning the Ideal Society in Chinese Philosophy and Culture".Religions.15 (1): 55.doi:10.3390/rel15010055.ISSN 2077-1444.
• — (20 April 2024)."A New Socioeconomic Formation? Philosophical Reflections on China's "New Projectment Economy"".World Marxist Review.1 (1):77–98.doi:10.62834/rdgm2d20.ISSN 3023-672X.

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