TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luhmann,Niklas
AU  - Kieserling,André
TI  - A systems theory of religion
T2  - Cultural memory in the present
SN  - 080478793X
AV  - BL60 .L83513 2013
U1  - 306.6 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Religion and sociology
KW  - Social systems
KW  - System theory
KW  - fast
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "Originally published in German under the title Die Religion der Gesellschaft."; Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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