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A Systems Theory of Religion (Paperback)
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A Systems Theory of Religion (Paperback)
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 Andre 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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