ISBN:
9780804743297
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9780804787932 (Sekundärausgabe)
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
485 p.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780804787932
Ausgabe:
[Online-Ausg.]
Serie:
Cultural Memory in the Present
DDC:
306.6
Schlagwort(e):
Religionssoziologie
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Online-Publikation
Kurzfassung:
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 expla...
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