ISBN:
9780804743280
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (485 p)
Series Statement:
Cultural Memory in the Present
Series Statement:
Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version A Systems Theory of Religion
DDC:
306.6
Keywords:
Religion and sociology
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Social systems
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System theory
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A Systems Theory of Religion, still unfinished at Niklas Luhmann's death in 1998, was first published in German two years later thanks to the editorial work of André Kieserling. One of Luhmann's most important projects, it exemplifies his later work while redefining the subject matter of the sociology of religion. Religion, for Luhmann, is one of the many functionally differentiated social systems that make up modern society. All such subsystems consist entirely of communications and all are "autopoietic," which is to say, self-organizing and self-generating. Here, Luhmann explains how religi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Series Page; Contents; Editor's Note; 1. Religion as a Form of Meaning; 2. Coding; 3. The Function of Religion; 4. The Contingency Formula "God"; 5. The Differentiation of Religious Communication; 6. Religious Organizations; 7. The Evolution of Religion; 8. Secularization; 9. Self-Description; Notes; Index;
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