A Systems Theory of Religion

Zusatztext "Don't be afraid: this book does not preach atheism. This book is not about the existential concerns of one individual. Rather! it approaches religion as a system as vital to society as those of the economy! law! and love. Luhmann shows what makes religion unique to society! its special capacity to guarantee meaning even when meaning defies obvious verification. This book is a further step in Luhmann's general theory of society! a theory that remains unsurpassed as an approach to our times." Informationen zum Autor Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998), Professor of Sociology at the University of Bielefeld, was one of the most eminent social theorists of the last decades of the twentieth century. Stanford University Press has published a number of his books: Social Systems (1995), Observations on Modernity (1998), Love as Passion: The Codification of Intimacy (1998), Art as a Social System (2000), The Reality of the Mass Media (2000), Theories of Distinction: Redescribing the Descriptions of Modernity (2002), and Theory of Society, Volume 1 (2012). Klappentext This posthumous and crucial contribution by one of the latter twentieth-century's most important sociologists, overturns a half-century of assumptions about the sociology of religion. Zusammenfassung This posthumous and crucial contribution by one of the latter twentieth-century's most important sociologists, overturns a half-century of assumptions about the sociology of religion.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Niklas Luhmann
• Mitarbeit: Andre Kieserling (Herausgeber), David Brenner (Übersetzung), Adrian Hermann (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 15.11.2012
• EAN: 9780804743297
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4329-7
• Seiten: 303
• Abmessung: 154 mm x 228 mm x 18 mm
• Serie: Cultural Memory in the Present
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke