Systems theory and religion

Pace, Enzo

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dc.creator	Pace, Enzo
dc.date	2017
dc.date.accessioned	2023-03-28T19:08:40Z
dc.date.available	2023-03-28T19:08:40Z
dc.identifier	1519-6089
dc.identifier	https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=74252567010
dc.identifier.uri	https://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/241867
dc.description	"The article deals with the systems theory to religion, in particular the Luhmann’s approach. This point of view enables to evade at least two dilemmas. The first concerns the topic of secularization, or the decline versus the revival of the sacred. The second one concerns the question of whether religion is a finite province of meanings or a superstructure that depends on something else — be it the economy or the genetic code, the neurological structure of our minds, or disorders of our psyche. Considering a religion as a system in relationships with various, multiple and changing social environments, religion suffers a relative loss of social weight, or a declining consent, during certain evolutionary periods of its relationships with the environment, while at other times it revives. Decline and revival actually mean the recurrent cycles of socio-religious inflation and deflation. It describes the belief system’s capacity to distinguish itself in order to stand the test of a changing environment, persisting and maintaining its internal coherence (self-reflexivity)."
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
dc.relation	http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=742
dc.rights	Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais
dc.source	Civitas - Revista de Ciências Sociais (Brasil) Num.2 Vol.17
dc.subject	Sociología
dc.subject	Luhmann
dc.subject	Religion
dc.subject	systems theory
dc.subject	secularization
dc.title	Systems theory and religion
dc.type	artículo científico