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A Systems Theory of Religion (Paperback): Niklas Luhmann A Systems Theory of Religion (Paperback)
Niklas Luhmann; Translated by David Brenner, Adrian Hermann; Edited by Andre Kieserling
R647 Discovery Miles 6 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"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.

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
R2,343 Discovery Miles 23 430 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"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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