Biblical scholar Boer (U. of Newcastle, Australia) thought he was finally done with the project once Criticism of Heaven was published in 2007, but he kept finding more writings by Marxists on religion. Himself a Marxist who writes about religion, he could not abandon his comrades. So here is the second of five projected volumes in the series Criticism of Heaven and Earth. Among his discussions here are the paradoxes of Lucien Goldmann, the Christian communism of Rosa Luxemburg, the forgetfulness of Julia Kristeva, the fables of Alain Badiou, the self-exorcism of George Lukács, and the Bible and the Beekeeper's Manual in the novels of Raymond Williams. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)