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A Systems Theory of Religion (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,343
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A Systems Theory of Religion (Hardcover): Niklas Luhmann

A Systems Theory of Religion (Hardcover)

Niklas Luhmann; Translated by David Brenner, Adrian Hermann; Edited by André Kieserling

Series: Cultural Memory in the Present

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"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 Andr(r) 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 religion provides a code for coping with the complexity, opacity, and uncontrollability of our world. Religion functions to make definite the indefinite, to reconcile the immanent and the transcendent.
Synthesizing approaches as disparate as the philosophy of language, historical linguistics, deconstruction, and formal systems theory/cybernetics, "A Systems Theory of Religion" takes on important topics that range from religion's meaning and evolution to secularization, turning decades of sociological assumptions on their head. It provides us with a fresh vocabulary and a fresh philosophical and sociological approach to one of society's most fundamental phenomena.

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Imprint: Stanford University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
Release date: 2013
First published: 2013
Authors: Niklas Luhmann
Translators: David Brenner • Adrian Hermann
Editors: André Kieserling
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-4328-0
Categories: Books
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LSN: 0-8047-4328-2
Barcode: 9780804743280

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