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Adi Granth
Alter's Action
Alter’s Action
Amaterasu
Amaterasu Omikami
Author_Enzo Pace
belief
belief system analysis
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Complexio Oppositorum
complexity
Entrepreneur's Social Action
Entrepreneur’s Social Action
environment
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Generalized Communication Medium
Granth Sahib
Guru Nanak
Home Town
Lord's Day
Lord’s Day
Matthew 25
Original DNA
Religious Belief System
religious meaning construction
secularisation debate
socio-religious
Socio-religious Environment
sociology of religion
spiritual
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
symbolic
Symbolic Boundaries
symbolic communication
Symbolic Generalizations
system
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systems theory approach to religion
systems theory religion
Traditional African Religions
Vice Versa
Young Men
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- ISBN 9781409435235
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Why do Gods persist in contemporary society? Religious revival and vitality all over the world contradict the vision of continuing declining of belief. This linear process of eclipse of the sacred in modern society has been proved wrong. Religion indeed is an expert system competent in ultimate meanings of human being and social order. Enzo Pace argues that religion persists as a symbol because of its intrinsic power of communication, in its will to wield the power to dominate the event of death, and to build a bridge between the visible and the invisible. The crucial passage from living word to holy scripture is a fundamental device in the construction of a system of religious belief. This book provides an insight on a new approach to religious studies, drawing from systems theory to consider religion as a means of communication, and offering a critical alternative to the secularization theory to explain why religion persists in modernity.
Enzo Pace is Professor of Sociology and Sociology of Religion University of Padova, and Head of the Department of Sociology and Director of the Interdepartmental Centre for the Intercultural Studies. He is a member of the following scientific boards: Interdepartmental Centre on Human Rights of Padova University; Observatoire de Sociologie de la Religion, University of Lausanne; Agence National de la Recherche (CNRS-France); Past-President of International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR/SISR); Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales (EHESS-Paris) in 1996-2000. He co-edits the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (Brill, Leiden-Boston); Member of the Editorial Committee of: Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions; Social Compass;
