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Book: Religion and Marxism

Chapter: Engels: The First Marxist Historian and Anthropologist of Religion

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.44045

Blurb:

This chapter provides a brief biographical sketch of Engels’s life before moving on to consider the extent of the collaborative relationship between Engels and Marx and Engels’s influence on historical and anthropological accounts of religions.

Chapter Contributors

  • Paul-Francois Tremlett (paul-francois.tremlett@open.ac.uk - ptremlett) 'Open University'