Critical Theory of Religion

Articles written by Professor Rudolf Siebert

Professor Siebert has published 220+ articles (in 12 different languages) and has nine video tape recordings on various topics (available at WMU Sangren Hall library). In 1992, he was honored with the publication of Influence of the Frankfurt School on Contemporary Theology: Critical Theory and the Future of Religion  (edited by A. James Reimer), which was a collection of Dubrovnik Papers in honor of Professor Siebert.

  1. "Die Kirche und die moderne Industrie," Rundschau, (September 1957) ("The Church and Modern Industry").
  2. "Jugendschutz - aber wie?", Rundschau, (March 1959) (Legal Pro-tection for Youth - But How?").
  3. "Der unbetreute Untergrund der Massen," Pädagogische Provinz, 13.Jahrgang (October 1959), Heft 10, SS. 517-529 ("The Unprotected Underground of the Masses").
  4. "Das Jugendarbeitsschutzgesetz: Ärgernis oder sozialer Fort-schritt?" Westfalenpost, (October 1960) ("Youth Labor ProtectionLaws: A Scandal or Progress?").
  5. "Die Kirche, das bist Du," Rundschau, (November 1960) ("The Church - That is You").
  6. "Laienchrist muss aktiv werden," Westfalenpost, (November 1960)("Catholic Laymen Must Become Active").
  7. "Den Parolen des Klassenkampfes Nächstenliebe entgegenstellen, Westfalenpost, (November 1960) ("Love versus Class Struggle").
  8. "Von Bismarck bis Adolf Hitler," Westfalenpost (April 1961) ("From Bismarck to Adolf Hitler").
  9. "Freiheitsstatute: Symbol Amerikas," Westfalenpost, (April 1961)("Statue of Liberty: Symbol of America").
  10. "Woran scheitern wir im Leben?" Westfälische Rundschau, (June 1961) ("What Makes Life a Failure?").
  11. "Amerikas Versuchungen," Westfalenpost (June 1961), ("America'sTemptations").
  12. "Ohne mich ist kein Standpunkt," Westfalenpost, (July 1961), ("Non-Commitment is no Alternative").
  13. "Berufsaufbauschule - Chance für die Zukunft," Westfalenpost, (July 1961) ("Second Educational Way - Chance for the Future").
  14. "Auch über die Grenzen blicken," Westfalenpost, (July 1961), ("Against Ethnocentricity").
  15. "Zum Jugendschutzgesetz in Europäischer Perspektive," Pädagogische Provinz,15. Jahrgang (October 1961), ("Youth Labor Protection Law in European Perspective").
  16. "Enzyklika will wirtschaftliche Verhältnisse nicht zementieren,"Westfalenpost, (October 1961), ("The Social Encyclical Does Not Want to Cement the Social and Economic Status Quo").
  17. "Das Konzil sucht neue Wege," Westfalenpost, (November 1961), ("The Council Tries to Find New Solutions").
  18. "Menschsein aus dem Bildungsdrang," Westfalenpost, (November1961), ("Humanization Through Education").
  19. "Der toten Vermächtnis: Solidarität gegen den Tod," Rundschau, (November 1961), ("Solidarity Against Death").
  20. "Gesellschaftsreform-Dienst am Menschen," Westfalenpost, (November 1961), ("Social Reform-A Service to Man").
  21. "Priester und moderne Gesellschaft," Rundschau, (January 1962), ("Priests and Modern Society").
  22. "Spiritismus: Ersatz und Aberglauben," Westfalenpost, (February 1962), ("Spiritism: Ersatz and Superstition").
  23. "Ehe und Familie im Umbruch," Westfalen Post, (March 1962), ("Marriage and Family in Transition").
  24. "Reklame produziert Konsumbedürfnisse," Westfalenpost, (April 1962), ("Advertisement Produces Artificial Needs").
  25. "Gibt es eine soziale Frage?" Westfalenpost, (April 1962), ("Is There a Social Question").
  26. "Maschinen lassen den Geist verkümmern," Westfalenpost, (April,1962), ("Machines Kill the Spirit").
  27. "Christianity and Antisemitism," The Bulletin of the History Teachers Club of the Notre Dame University Press, (October - November 1966), 6-11.
  28. "A German Experience," At the Crossroads, V, No. 2 and 3, (1966), 12-14.
  29. "Responsibility and Social Change," Tom-Tom, (February 25, 1968), 1-2
  30. ( Review ). Levin, Nora. The Holocaust, The Destruction of European Jewry 1933-1945, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1968, 768 p. Article title: "The Jewish Tragedy--the How and Why," Kalamazoo Gazette, February 14, 1968, p. 14.
  31. "The University and Social Change," Perspectives I (October 1969), 31-47.
  32. "Zuschrift," Frankfurter Hefte, XXIV (December 1969), 825-826.
  33. ( Review ). Brandon, S.F.G. Religion in Ancient History, New York: Charles Schribner's Sons, 1969, pp. vii + 412. In The Thomist,XXIV (October 1970), 679 - 688.
  34. "Political Theology," The Ecumenist, IX, No. 5 (July - August 1971), 65-71.
  35. "Christian Social Ethics and the Problem of Social Change," Perspectives, XII, No. 3 (Fall 1971), 53 - 77.
  36. ( Review ). Reich, Charles, A., The Greening of America, New York: Random House 1970, 399 pp. Article title: "Radical Subjectivity and Transcendent Revolution: Religious Roots of the Dialectic Movement in American Society," Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, X, No. 3 (Fall 1971), 255-257.
  37. "Hegel and the Rebellion and Counter-Rebellion of Youth," Perspectives, XXX, No. 2 (Fall 1972), 53-57.
  38. "George McGovern," Kalamazoo Gazette, CXXXIX, No. 205 (May 12, 1972), A7.
  39. "Why Vote for McGovern?" Kalamazoo Gazette, CXXXX, No. 15, November 1972.
  40. "Hegel and Theology," The Ecumenist, XII, No. 1 (November-December 1973), 1-6.
  41. "Religion in the Perspective of Critical Sociology," Concilium (Revue Internationale de Theologie), I, No. 10 (January 1974), 56-59. Translated into 11 languages.
  42. "Hegel's Political Theology: Liberation," The Ecumenist, XII, No. 3 (March-April 1974), 33-41.
  43. ( Review ). Frankena, William K. Ethics, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, Inc. 1973, 125 pp., for The Michigan Academician, VII, No. 2 (Fall 1974), 266-269
  44. "From Aquinas to Hegel: The Principle of Subjectivity," The Michigan Academician, VII, No. 4 (Spring 1975), 409-436.
  45. "Change, Value and Adult Education," Chrysallis, I, No. 1 (Summer 1975), 14-25.
  46. "Francis Littna: The Principle of Subjectivity," Catalogue for the Grand Rapids Art Museum (November 1975), 1-4.
  47. "The Christian Revolution: Liberation and Transcendence," The Ecumenist, (September-October 1976), 85-91.
  48. "The New Religious Dimension in Western Marxism," Horizons, part I (Winter 1976), I, 217-236.
  49. "M. Horkheimer: Theology and Positivism I," The Ecumenist, XIV, No. 3 (March -April 1976), 19-23.
  50. "M. Horkheimer: Theology and Positivism II," The Ecumenist, XIV, No. 5 (July-August 1976), 42-45.
  51. "Horkheimer's Sociology of Religion," Telos (Summer 1976), 127 -144.
  52. "Jacob and Jesus: Recent Marxist Readings of the Bible," The Bible and Liberation-Political and Social Hermeneutics, pre-pared as a Radical Religious Reader by the Community for Religious Research and Education, Berkeley, CA: 1976, 145-156.
  53. "The New Marxist Conception of Christianity: Hope versus Positivism," The Anglican Theological Review, part I (Spring 1977), 20-35.
  54. "The New Religious Dimension in Western Marxism," Horizons, part II (Spring 1977), 43-59.
  55. "Hegel's Philosophy of History: Its Historical Consequences,"Encyclopedia Moderna, University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia (June 1977), 100-111.
  56. "Fromm's Theory of Religion," Telos (Summer 1977), 111-120.
  57. "The New Marxist Conception of Christianity: Hope versus Postitivism," The Anglican Theological Review, part II (Fall 1977), 387-412.
  58. "Hegel on Marriage and Family: The Origin of Subjective Freedom," Proceedings of the 1976 Conference of the Hegel Society of Amerca, Villanova University, Villanova, PA: Humanities Press 1977, 33-35.
  59. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press 1972, Clio (June 1977),5-10.
  60. "Communication Without Domination," Concilium (January 1978), 81-94.
  61. "The Future of Marriage and Family: Withering Away or Restructering?" in Concilium (January 1978), 10-25.
  62. "Peukert's New Critical Theology I," The Ecumenist (May-June 1978), 52-58.
  63. ( Review ). "Karl Marx, the Roots of his Thoughts," by J.R.D. Hoeven, Toronto: Wedge Publishing Foundation 1976, International Journal of Philosophy and Religion (June 1978, 50-55.
  64. "Peukert's New Critical Theology II," The Ecumenist, (August-September 1978), 78-80.
  65. "Hans Küng: Toward a Negative Theology," The Ecumenist (January-February 1979), 20-35.
  66. "Habermas's Critical Theory of Religion," Telos (Spring 1979), 50 -68.
  67. "Adorno's Theory of Religion," Telos (March 1979) 108-114.
  68. "Work and Religion in Hegel's Thought," Concilium (January 1980), 117-128.
  69. "The Phenomenon of Race," Concilium (January 1981), 3-10.
  70. "Church of the Future-Church From Below: Küng and Metz,"Cross Currents, 1981, 6 2 -84.
  71. "Ernesto Cardenal and the Nicaraguan Revolution: From Theological Theory to Revolutionary Praxis," Cross Currents, 1981, 241- 251.
  72. "From Historical Materialism to Political Theology: Benjamin and Metz," in Cross Currents, 1982.
  73. "Psychoanalysis and Religion: European Situation," Concilium, (January 1982), 27-37.
  74. "Critical Theory: Theological Dimension," Kulturi Rednik, (November 1982), 10-30.
  75. "Toward a Critical Catholicism," Anglican Theological Review (January 1983), I, 1-30; II, 1-13.
  76. "Creation and Redemption," The Ecumenist, Vol. 20, No. 5 (January 1983), 20-35.
  77. "Dialectical Materialism and Political Theology: Two Views of the Future," World Futures, 19, (October 1983), 61- 99.
  78. "Humanistic Future Studies Program," World Futures 19 (October 1983), 163-173.
  79. "Ideology and Utopia," Telos (March 1984), 20-35.
  80. "Religion and Politics," Telos (March 1984), 146-148.
  81. "The Frankfurt School: Enlightenment and Sexuality," Concilium (June 1984), 27-37
  82. "The Critical Theory of Religion," Kulturi Rednik (August 1984), 70-87.
  83. "Hegel on the Dialectic of Civil Society: Alternative Futures," Proceedings of the International Hegel Society, (November 1984), 20-60.
  84. "Habermas's Critical Theory: Religious Dimension," The Ecumenist (November 1984), 20-35. ( Review ). "Konkordie und Kirchengemeinschaft reformatorischer Kirchen im Europa der Gegenwart," A. Birmele (ed.). Okumenische Perspektiven 10 (Frankfurt: Verlag O. Lembeck and Verlag J. Knecht 1982, pp. 126). "Okumene am Ort: Einheitsbemühungen in der Gemeinde," A. Birmele (ed.). Bensheimer Hefte 60 (Göttingen: Vandenboeck and Ruprecht 1983, pp. 63). S. Sunnus and R. Tilmann, Gemeinsamer Boden-verschiedene Wege: aus der okumenischen Praxis zweier Gemeinden (Munich: Kaiser; Mainz: Grünewald; 1983 pp. 167) all three books, Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Fall 1984), 110-112.
  85. "Nova dimenzija religije u marksizmy na Zapady," trans. of "New Religious Dimension in Western Marxism," Nova et Vetera, Sarajevo, 1984, GOD XXXIII, 61-91.
  86. "Political Theology: Communicative Praxis," The Ecumenisms (February 1985), 30-45.
  87. "Three Alternative Futures: Hegel's Philosophy of Society and History," World Futures 20, 3/4 (October 1985), 231-297.
  88. "Habermas's Critical Theory: Theological Dimension," Conrad Grebel Review (Winter 1985), 22-39.
  89. "Hegel on the Dialectic of Civil Society: Alternative Futures," Proceedings of the International Hegel Society (October 1985) Zürich, 1987, 40-51.
  90. "Urbanization as a World Trend: A Challenge to the Churches," forthcoming in Missiology Vol. XIII, No. 4 (October 1985), pp. 429-442.
  91. "Response" to J. Toews on "Habermas's Critical Theory: Theological Dimension," Conrad Grebel Review,, 3 (Fall 1985), pp. 288-292.
  92. "Do Common Values Exist?" in EFIL, Common Values for Humankind, Strasbourg, France, 1985, 30-56.
  93. "Habermas's Reconstruction of Historical Materialism: Religious Dimension," Coeli, Brüssels, Belgium, June 1986, I, 1- 6.
  94. "Habermas's Reconstruction of Historical Materialism: Religious Dimension," Coeli, Brussels, Belgium, September 1986, II, 10-18.
  95. "Marxism" in the New Dictionary of Theology, Wilmington, Delaware: Michael Glazier, Inc., 1987, 214-218.
  96. "Will the 5 Billionth Baby be born here?", Battle Creek Inquirer (July 11,1987), 1-2.
  97. "Future of Children Entering Kindergarten This Year," Kalamazoo Gazette (August 31, 1987), 5-6.
  98. "From Critical Theory to Critical Futurology: Three Alternative Futures," in Abstracts, International Conference " Utopia: Imaginationand Reality," University of Haifa, Israel, 1990.
  99. "Toward a Communicative Political Theology: Theodicy," Cross Currents, (January 1990)
  100. "Jürgen Habermas: Theodicy, Compassion and Solidarity," Cross Currents (January 1990).
  101. "Political Theology: Jesus's Parables," Cross Currents (April 1990).
  102. "Toward a Negative Metaphysics: Critique of Positivism," Cross Currents (April 1990).
  103. "The Future of Religion: The Problem of Humanism", Synthesis Philosophica, Zagreb,Yugoslavia ( May /June 1989). Published in English and Croatian.
  104. "Theodicy: Compassionate Solidarity", Coeli, Brüssels, Belgium (April,1989). Printed in English and French.
  105. "Hegel on the Dialectic of Civil Society: Alternative Futures" Hegel Jahrbuch Bochum: Germinal Verlag 1988, p.179-199.
  106. ( Review ) "Markus Barth, Das Mahl des Hern: Gemeinschaft mit Israel, mit Christus und unter den Gästen", Neu Kirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1988, p. 275. Journal of Ecumenical Studies, July 1989, 275-279.
  107. "Walter Dirks' Communicative Political Theology: Revelation and Autonomous Reason", in Cross Currents, 1990.
  108. ( Translation from German ) W.Dirks," Marriage / Eucharist / Socialism" Cross Current, January 1990.
  109. "Theodicy: Compassionate Solidarity" in COELI, November 1988, (English and French).
  110. "Intimation of the Infinite in Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas" in The Michigan Academician,Volume 22. Number 2, February, 1990, pp.161-185.
  111. "Towards a Dialectical Theodicy of Liberation and Reconciliation: Solidarity with the Innocent Victim," in The Michigan Academician, 1990.
  112. "Teodiceja: suosjecajna solidarnost", in Filozofska Istrazivanja, Zagreb, 28 (1/1989),143-157.
  113. "Religious-Humanist Dialogue at Dubrovnik", The Ecumenist, Vol.28, No.1 / November-December,1989, 13-15.
  114. "Intimation of the Infinite in Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas", Synthesis Philosophica, Zagreb, 1989. ( New version, in Croation language).
  115. "Three Alternative Futures," Journal of the Future Studies Federation, March 1989.
  116. "The Future of Religion : The Problem of Humanism ( I )", in COELI, 1989.
  117. "The Future of Religion: The Problem of Humanism," in The Journal for Ecumenical Studies, December 1989.
  118. "Theodicy: Compassionate Solidarity" in Synthesis Philosophica 7, Zagreb,Yugoslavia 1989, Vol.4 fasc. 1, pp.101-118.
  119. "The Future of Religion : The Problem of Humanism," in COELI, Centre Oecumenique de Liaisons Internationales, Bruxelles, Belgium, Quarterly, Nr. 51, Fall 1989, 22-25.
  120. "The Future of Religion: The Problem of Humanism," in Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe", Vol. 10. Number 1, February 1990, 41- 45.
  121. "From Critical Theory to Critical Futurology: Three Alternative Futures" in IFDA Dossier, Fondation Internationale Pour un Autre,Developpment, 77 May-September 1990.
  122. "A German Experience," a Polish translation for the Polish journal Mah, Krakow, Poland 1990.
  123. "Walter Dirks: Communicative Political Theology," a Polish translation for the Polish Journal Mah, Krakow, Poland 1990.
  124. Polish translation of my English translation of W.Dirks," Marriage, Eucharist and Socialism" for the Polish jopurnal Mah, Krakow, 1990.
  125. "Markus Barth, Das Mahl des Herrn: Gemeinschaft mit Israel, mit Christus und unter den Gästen, Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag,1987. Pp 275, a review which appeared in the Journal of Ecumenical Studies, Spring 1990 ( 26:2).
  126. "Intimation of the Infinite in Horkheimer,Adorno,and Habermas," (revised) in Michigan Academician,XXII,2 ( Spring 1990): 161-185.
  127. "Walter Dirks: Human Wisdom and Political Theology," in Cross Currents, XXXIX, 4, 431-441.
  128. "W.Dirks," Marriage / Eucharist /Socialism," in Cross Currents, XXXIX, 4, 442-457.
  129. "A German Experience" newly published in The Grass Roots Review: A Literary Review by and for Workers, Vol.2, No. 1 (Fall 1990),6-9.
  130. "Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action: Religion and the Reonstruction of Marxism-Perestroika" in Abstracts, American Academy of Religion. Society of Biblical Literature 1990. Scholar's Press: Annual Meeting 1990, 161.
  131. "Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action: Religion and Reconstruction of Marxism-Perestroika" submitted to Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Telos, The Journal of Religion.
  132. "Beyond the Catching-up Revolution: Socialism as Self-Criticism of the Capitalistic Life Form" published in the Hungarian Journal Eszmelet, October 1991.
  133. "Nagovjest Bescraja u Horkheimer,Adorno, i Habermasa," in Filozofska Istrazivanja, 34 Fil istraz. God. 10, Sv. 1. Str. 1-3000, Zagreb 1990, 77-88.
  134. ( Interview ). "Govor Vjere: Rudolf Siebert. Eticke Ileme Ostaju", Interview and published by Ms. Majda Tafra in the Jugoslav journal Vecernij List, Subota, 8. VI, 1991.
  135. ( Review ) "Dialog und Verständigung. Erwägungen zu einer modernen Verständigungskultur," by H.Fritzsche, University of Rostock, in Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 38 / 5, 1990, 401-410.-Review appeared in Philosophy Documentation Center, July, 1991.
  136. ( Review ) "Two Aspects of the Christian-Marxist Dialogue: A Protestant Response", by H.Fritzsche, Rostock University, in Dialectics and Humanism, No. 3-4, 1989. Review appeared in Philosophy Documentation Center, July 1991.
  137. ( Interview ). "Nationalism: the Poisoned Raisins," Interview by D. Merdjanova, published in Antepatypeh Phopym 49 / XLVII, Sofia, Bulgaria, December 3-9, 1991, 1, 6. ( Literary Forum).
  138. ( Interview ). "Govor Vjere: Eticke Ileme Ostaju " Interview by M. Tafra, published in Vecernji List. Subota, Zagreb, Croatia, June 8, 1991, 52.
  139. "From Habermas's Discourse Ethics to Benjamin's Political Theology: Anamnestic Solidarity" in Abstracts for Religious Studies Program, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, 96th Annual Meeting at Central Michigan University, March 6-7, 1992.
  140. "The Theodicy Question according to J.B.Metz and J. Moltmann: God on Trial? The Pain of God?" in Abstracts for Religious Studies Program, Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters. Central Michigan University, 96th Annual Meeting, March 6-7, 1992.
  141. "The Hegel-Reception in Horkheimer's and Adorno's Critical Theory: Determinate Negation-Theodicy," in Hegel-Jahrbuch 1992, 305-321.
  142. "Critical Thinking in Terms of the Traditional and the Critical Theory" in Instructional Exchange, Office of University Assessment, Western Michigan University. It is to be published in Fall 1992.
  143. "The Traditional and the Critical Theory, " published by the Heracleitean Society. A Report on Philosophy and Criticism of the Arts and Sciences, Vol. 16, 1991.
  144. "Habermas's Communicative Ethics" published by The Proceedings of the Heracleitean Society . A Report on Philosophy and Criticism of the Artys and Sciences, Vol. 15, 1990, 61-104.
  145. "The Authoritarian and the Emancipatory Potential in the Means of Mass Communication in Civil Society," in Sociology of Religion. Revue Internationale De Theologie, Amsterdam, 1993.
  146. "My Perspectives on Teaching," in WMU Teaching Excellence Award Winner Volume about Teaching and Learning to be published by the WMU Office of Faculty Development, 1992.
  147. Abstract of my article "Intimation of the Infinite in Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas," in Sociological Abstracts, La Jolla, CA., June 1992.
  148. "The Critique of Force in Right and State: From Hegel through Benjamin and Marcuse to Habermas," to be published in the Hegel-Jahrbuch 1993.
  149. The Bulgarian Academy of Science in Sophia, Bulgaria requested the following articles for publication:
    "Toward a Dialectical Theodicy of Liberation and Reconciliation: Anamnestic Solidarity with the Innocent Victims of Society and History."
    "Religious Anti-Crisis Strategies and the 'End of history': Philosophy of Praxis, Neoconservativism and Deconstructionism."
    "The Critique of Force in Right and State: From Hegel through Benjamin and Marcuse to Habermas."
    "From Conservative to Critical Political Theology."
    "Communicative Action as a Stragetgy for a Critical Political Theology: Redemption and Happiness. Autonomy and Solidarity."
    "'Walter Dirks' Communicative Political Theology: Revelation and Autonomous Reason."
    "Theodicy from Hegel to Horkheimer, Tillich and Habermas: The Longing for the God beyond the Cruel God."
    "Growing up under Fascism: The Holocaust."
    "Contemporary Catholicism I and II."
    "Beyond the Catching-up- Revolution: Humanistic and Democratic Socialism as Self-Criticism of the Capitalist Life Form."
    "Georg W. Rudolphi's Theologie der Geschichte: Die Bergpredigt, die Versuchungen und die Heiligen."
    "War and Peace in Christian Perspective: The Gulf Crisis."
    "The Hegel-Reception in Horkheimer's and Adorno's Critical Theory: Determinate negation-Theodicy."
    "A Critical Political-Theological Analysis of M. Gorbachev's 'Perestroika' and 'Glasnost'."
    "Political -Theological Elements in Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam: A Comparative Perspective."
    "The Theodicy Problem in Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam: A Comparative Perspective."
    "A Prophetic Political Theology Between a Populist Nationalism and an Enlightened and Radical Democracy: Where to go ?"
    "Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action: Discourse Ethics."
  150. "Kant and Hegel: Peace-Keeping or Peace-Making?" a contribution to the Festschrift for Professor Dr.Dr. Helmut Fritzsche, University of Rostock, Rostock Germany, February, 1994.
  151. "The Interruption of the Historical Continuum of Force: From Hegel through Benjamin and Marcuse to Habermas." A contribution to the Festschrift for Professor Dr.Dr. Helmut Fritzsche, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany, February, 1994.
  152. "Kant and Hegel: Peace-Keeping or Peace-Making?" in the Journal of the Heracleitean Society, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Fall 1995
  153. "Kant and Hegel on War and Peace," Filozofska Istrazivanja / Synthesis Philosophica, Zagreb, Croatia: University of Zagreb, January 1995 ( 60 pages in Croatian and English language).
  154. "Fromm's Critical Theory of Religion," in Philosophical Alternatives.Journal of the Institute of Philosophy.Bulgarian Academy of Science,Sophia, Bulgaria, February 1993 (translated into Bulgarian)
  155. "Racism," in Philosophical Alternatives. Journal of the Institute of Philosophy. Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sophia, Bulgaria, April 1993 (translated into Bulgarian).
  156. "Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action: Discourse Ethics," in Philosophical Alternatives. Journal of Institute of Philosophy. Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sophia, Bulgaria, June 1993 (translated into Bulgarian).
  157. "The Critique of Force in Right and State: From Hegel through Benjamin and Marcuse to Habermas," in the Hegel-Jahrbuch 1993 / 94, Berlin: Akademie Verlag GmbH, Winter 1994, 169-184.
  158. "'Critical Thinking' in Terms of Traditional and Critical Theory," for WMU University Assessment, IX Article, July 1992.
  159. "My Perspective on Teaching," for a WMU Teaching Excellency Award Winner Volume, July 1992.
  160. Abstract: "Intimation of the Infinite in Horklheimer, Adorno, and Habermas,"in Michigan Academician XXII,161-185 (1990), in Council of Abstracting Service. Sociological Abstracts Inc.La Jolla, CA 92038-8231, July 1992.
  161. "Toward a New Federation of Jugoslav States: Religion and Nationalism," in The Ecumenist, December 1995,
  162. "The Transition from Socialism to Nationalism in the Eastern Part of Germany: The Role of Protestantism and Catholicism," in The Ecumenist, February 1995
  163. Review of Stjepan G.Mestrovic, Durkheim and Post-Modern Culture, New York: Aldine de Gruyter, 1992, in Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, January 1996
  164. "Peace-making or Peace-keeping in Ex-Jugoslavia" appeared in different form in four Canadian newspapers in March and April 1994: The Aquinian (Fredericton, New Brunswick), The Fredericton Gleaner (Fredericton, New Brunswick), The Casket (Antigonish, Nova Scotia), The Cape Breton Post (Sydney, Nova Scotia).
  165. "The Critique of Force in Right and State: From Hegel through Benjamin and Marcuse to Habermas," In the Hegel-Jahrbuch 1993/1994, Berlin: Academie Verlag, 170-186.
  166. "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's Theodicy: The Negative in World-History, and its Negation," In the Hegel-Jahrbuch 1994 / 1995, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1-14.
  167. "Kant i Hegel o ratu i miru," In Filozofska Istrazivanja 53-54, God.14, Sv. 2-3, Str. 241-618, Zagreb 1994, 543-584.
  168. "From Frankfurt to Dubrovnik." In The Nashwaak Review, Fall 1994, Volume 1, Number 1, 69-109.
  169. "From Frankfurt through Kalamazoo to Dubrovnik" In Grass Roots Review, A literary Review by and for Working People, Vol.5,Spring 1995, 103-116.
  170. "Biographical Story" In the Journal of Philosophical Alternative, Sophia, Bulgaria.(Translated into Bulgarian)
  171. Abstract :"Habermas's Communicative Ethic," in the Proceedings of the Heracleitian Society 15, 61-104, 1990, for the Philosophy Documentation Center. The Philosophical Index, August 1, 1994.
  172. "Budnost religije-problem humanizma" In Filozofska Istrazivasnja 35, Fil.istraz.God 10, Sr.2,Str.301 -596, Zagreb 1990, 561-570.
  173. "Georg W.F.Hegel's Theodicy: the Negative in World-History, and its Negation," In the Hegel-Jahrbuch, Berlin: Academy Verlag, 1995, 1-14.
  174. "The Political Situation on the Balkans" was published in the Poltical Journal, Sophia, Bulgaria, in June1996.
  175. "From Dialectical Philosophy to Critical Theory: The Negative in World -History and its negation-War and Peace," has been published in Bulgarian translation in Sophia, Bulgarian, April 1996.
  176. "Autobiographical Meditations" was published in Bulgarian language in the Philosophical Alternatives, Sophia, Bulgaria, January 1996, 84-87.
  177. My article "Georg W.F.Hegel's Theodicy: the Negative in World-History, and its Negation," was published in the Hegel-Jahrbuch, Berlin: Academy Verlag, 1995, 1-14. 191. "From Kant through Hegel to Habermas: On War-making, Peacekeeping and Peace-Making " was translated into Bulgarian and published in Sophia, Bulgaria, in Fall 1997.
  178. "From Kant through Hegel to Habermas: On War-making, Peacekeeping and Peace-Making" was translated into Bulgarian and published in Sophia, Bulgaria, in Fall 1997.
  179. "Vom Menschlichen Potential der Arbeit bis zu den evolutionären Universalien der Sprache, der Liebe, der Anerkennung und des Staates," In Der Dialog Begriff am Ende des 20.Jahrhunderts, Berlin 1997, 100-119.
  180. "From Georg W.F.Hegel's Absolute Idealistic to Max Horkheimer's Critical Materialistic History of Philosophy: The Scientific Legitimation of Metaphysics, the Dialectical Method, Progress in Philosophy, and Revolution in Society" in the Jahrbuch der Internationalen Hegel-Gesellschaft, Winter 1998.
  181. "The Dialectic of the Universal and the Particular in Individual, Society, and Religion," in Filozofska Istrazivania, Zagreb, Croatia, Winter 1999.
  182. "Life World: From Religion through Demythologization, Disenchantment, Deritualization, and Deauraization to secular Communicative Rationalization" in Filozofska Istrazivania, Zagreb, Croatia. Fall 1998.
  183. "The Myth of Origin and its Eschatological Negation" in Cross Current, Winter 2000.
  184. "The Negativity of Modern Art as the Negation of the Negativity of Modern Society: From Hegel to Adorno," In the Hegel Jahrbuch, Berlin 2000, 1- 19.
  185. Abstract: "The Dialectical Sociology of Religion: Alternative Futures" in Sociological Abstracts. XIVe Congres Mondial de Sociologie, July 1998, 344. (International Sociological Association (ISA). XIV. Congress of Sociology, Montreal, Quebec, July 26 - August 1,1998.
  186. "The Critical Theory of Religion," on Web Site: http//www.wmich.edu/religion/lectures/critical.html.
  187. "Report on the Research Commitee on the Future Of Religion of the 14th World Congress of Sociology, Montreal." In the Newsletter of the International Sociology Association ( ISA) in June 1999.
  188. In July 1998, I wrote an article entitled "Transcendence and Countermovement" to be published in the Ecumenist in December 1999.
  189. "The Future of Religion: The Rescue of Religious Motives and Motivations through their Inversion into Secular Discourse" in Traditional Religion and Culture at the Turn of the Century, Kyoto, Japan, December 1999.
  190. "The Dialectical Sociology of Religion: Alternative Futures" in Traditional Religion and Culkture at the Turn of the Century, Kyoto,Japan, December 1999.
  191. "There is a World beyond Kalamazoo." In X-Alta,"Multiculturalism," December 1999.
  192. "Multiculturalism in Modern Art and Aesthetics: From Hegel to Adorno" in X-Alta "Multicukturalism," in December 1999.
  193. "Toward a New Humanism: The Five Fundamental Human Potentials and the Possibility of their Actualization," in X-Alta, August 1999.
  194. "Transcendence without Countermovement" in Ecumenist. 2000.
  195. "Le multiculturalisme dans l'art moderne e l'esthetique: de Hegel a Adorno" in X-Alta, novembre 1999.
  196. "Il y un Monde au-dela de Kalamazoo" in X- Alta, novembre 1999.
  197. "Walter Benjamin: Servitude volontaire" in X-Alta, janvier 2000.
  198. "Life World: From Religion through Demythologization, Disenchantment,Deritualization and Deauraization to Secular Communicative Rationalization," in Synthesis Philosophica, 27-28 (1-2/1999, 97-125.-
  199. "The Critical Theory of Society: The Longing for the Totally Other," in Critical Sociology,Volume 31, Issue 1-2.Leiden:Koninklijke Brill NV, 2005.
  200. A critique of Hizuru Miki's essay" Toward a New Paradigm of Religious Organizations" in the International Journal of Japanese Sociology, Number 8 ( 1999), 141-159.
  201. A review of Ina Merdjanova's Book Nationalism, Religion and Civil Society for the Edwin Mellen Press.January 2002.
  202. I published the article "The Critical Theory of Religion" in the journal Synthesis Philosoophica, Zagreb 2001,Vol. 16.Fasc.2,295-330.
  203. "Christianity as Absolute or Relative Religion: From Hegel to Horkheimer,Benjamin,Adorno and Habermas," in the Hegel-Jahrbuch 2002,1-23.
  204. "Las tres fases de una tepria critica de la religion", in BIS, No.30,Verano, 2002, Sociedad Libre Para La Difusion Del Saber (SLDS) 14-17.
  205. "Religion as Productive Force in the Formation of a Civilized Society" in the Ukrainian Journal Religion and Civil Society,International Seminar Proceeding, Kiev-Simferopol-Yalta,January 14-18, 2002, ISSN 1562-0808, No.28, February 2002, 1-9.
  206. "Religion and Civil Society: Is the Universalization of Religious or Secular Values and Norms Possible in the Process of Global Modernization?" in the Ukrainian Journal Religion and Civil Society.International Seminar Proceeding.Kiev-Simferopol-Yalta,January 14-18, 2002, ISSN 1562-0808. No.28, February 2002, 30-37.
  207. "Chapter 5 "The Future of Religion: The Rescue of Religious Semantic Potentials, Motives and Motivations through their Inversion into Secular Discourse and Communicative and Political Action." in R. Bachika, (Ed), Traditional Religion and Culture in a New Era, Rutgers University: Transaction Books 2002, 69-114.
  208. "From the Critical Theory to the Critical Political Theology: Personal Autonomy and Universal Solidarity New York: Peter Lang 2002. Third edition.
  209. A review of Ina Merdjanova's Book Nationalism, Religion and Civil Society for the Edwin Mellen Press.January 2002.
  210. "The Critical Theory of Religion" in the journal Synthesis Philosophica, Zagreb 2001,Vol. 16.Fasc.2,295-330.
  211. "Las tres fases de una tepria critica de la religion", in BIS, No.30,Verano, 2002,Sociedad Libre Para La Difusion Del Saber (SLDS) 14-17. ("Drei Stufen einer kritischen Theorie der Religion"Jürgen Habermas zum 14.Oktober.mit Frankfurter( i.e. Bockenheimer Gruss aus den Staaten}(" Three Steps of a Critical Theory of Religion"Jürgen Habermas to his Birthday on October 14, 2002 with Frankfurter, i.e. Bockenheimer Greeting from the States
  212. "Religion as Productive Force in the Formation of a Civilized Society" in the Ukrainian Journal Religion and Civil Society, International Seminar Proceeding, Kiev-Simferopol-Yalta, January 14-18, 2002, ISSN 1562-0808, No.28, February 2002, 1-9.
  213. "The Open Dialectic Between Religious and Secular values and Norms: Their Universalization through Public Discourse" in Futures Research. Newsletter of the International Sociological Association. Research Committee O7, No. 16, November 2002, 4-5.
  214. "Religion in the Social World of the 21st Century: Toward a World Ethios," in Futures Research. Newletter of the International Sociological Association. Research Committee 07, No. 16, November 2002, 5-6.
  215. Interview with the Kalamazoo Gazette: Chris Meehan / Olga Bonfiglio,"Ex-German airman teaches against war" Kalamazoo Gazette, Saturday, February 22, 2003, D1,2.
  216. "The Critical Theory of Society: The Longing for the Totally Other," in the Journal Critical Sociology,, Orlando, Florida, November 2003.
  217. "Erinnerung an den Christen und Humanisten Otto Schuhmann, im Kontext der Barbarei," ( "In Remembrance of the Christian and Humanist Otto Schuhmann in the Context of Barbarism" published in addition to A. Askenasy, Otto Schuhmann 1888-1950. Ein Schulmeister in den Zerreissproben seiner Zeit, New York 2003.Anhang.
  218. A review of M.Kohlenbach/R.Geuss, The Frankfurt School and Religion for MacMillan, London,in April 2003.
  219. Abstract :" The Critical Theory of Society: Universal Values?" for the International Sociology Association in Summer 2002.
  220. "The Critical Theory: The Right Society," with the Congresso Internacional Valore Universaise o Futuro da Sociedade a ser realizado de 17 a 19 de Setembro de 2001 na sede da PUC-SP.R. Monte Alegre, 984/Perdizes in June 2003. The article was translated into Portugese
  221. "The Open Dialectic Between Religious and Secular Values and Norms:The Course of Civilization in the 21st Century," in G.N. Lundskow. Religious Innovation in a Global Age. Essays on the Construction of Spirituality,Jefferson, North Carolina, and London : McFarland and Company,Inc. Publishers 2005 .37 -68.
  222. "Critical Theory of Religion and Inverse Theology versus Nationalism and Fascism," in Yalta Papers, Yalta 2005, 227-233
  223. "Religion, Nationalism and Globalism: Alienation, Force, Terror, and Jus Talionis or the Golden Rule? 233-239.
  224. "The Critical theory of Society: The Longing for the totally Other", 239-246.
  225. "Adorno's Critical Theory of Religion: Inverse Theology versus Clerico-Fascism," in X-Alta, March 2004. (Published in French)
  226. "Liberation and Redemption: From Hegel through Horkheimer to Adorno-Liberation and Redemption in music as Dissonance, Double Negation and Objectless Internality," in X-Alta, October 2006. (Published in French)
  227. "The Critical Theory of Religion: Toward an Open Dialectic Between Religious Faith and Secular Experience and Knowledge," in Forum on Public Policy, Volume 2, Number 1, 2006, 1-32
  228. "The Critical Theory of Religion: The Golden Rule," Paper given at Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg. Russia, November 6, 2007
  229. "The Critical Theory of Religion: New Models," Paper given at Saint Petersburg University, Saint Petersburg. Russia, November 6, 2007
  230. "The Jesus Revolution, the Judas Kiss, and the Empires," Paper given at Yalta Conference, Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine, Nov. 8, 2007
  231. "The Critical Theory of Religion: Jus Talionis," Paper given at Yalta Conference, Yalta, Crimea, Ukraine, Nov. 9, 2007

 

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