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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 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...
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This second volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was first published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of communicative media, including language, writing, the printing...
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This first volume of Niklas Luhmann's two-part final work was initially published in German in 1997. The culmination of his thirty-year theoretical project to reconceptualize sociology, it offers a comprehensive description of modern society on a scale not attempted since Talcott Parsons. Beginning with an account of the fluidity of meaning and the accordingly high improbability of successful communication, Luhmann analyzes a range of communicative...
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Los autores clásicos de la sociología ya habían concedido un lugar de especial relevancia a la sociología de la religión en el contexto de la teoría social y, sobre todo, en los estudios consagrados a la sociedad moderna, supuestamente ajena a lo religioso. Esta orientación fue retomada y reelaborada por Niklas Luhmann en esta obra póstuma ?continuación de sus volúmenes sobre la ciencia, el arte, el derecho y la economía?, en la que trabajaba...
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