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The starting point of the article is the crisis that has beset modern secularism. Mindful of the threat from religious fundamentalism, it is committed to a postsecular reconfiguration of the relationship between the secular & the religious, where the strengths & weaknesses of both elements are acknowledged. It seeks to do this by an examination of Marx's critique of religion, & the response to the Marxist project exemplified by Derrida & Bloch. It argues that Marx's approach to the dead, as developed in the Eighteenth Brumaire (150 years old in 2002), provides a context for his hostility towards religion, & that Derrida & Bloch in their greater openness to the claims of the past, generate both a critique of Marx's strictures on religion, & a recognizably postsecular reworking of positive elements in Marx's project. 43 References. Adapted from the source document.