Karl Marx on religion: the perspective of Boko Haram in Nigeria
One memorable quote from Karl Marx’s conception of religion is, “religion is the opium of the masses.” By this, he critiqued religion as an analgesic that dulls the senses, thus inducing a false sense of satisfaction, and preventing the oppressed from revolting against the grubby socio-economic syst...
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Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
2014
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Journal of religious culture
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