| 书目名称 | Complexifying Religion | | 编辑 | Andrei-Razvan Coltea | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Connects concepts from social sciences, information theory, complex systems theory and cognitive science.Gives a unique, interdisciplinary framework for understanding religion.Is a participant observa | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book provides an original and challenging perspective of religions as abstract complex adaptive systems, using an interdisciplinary approach to try to understand what religions are and how they function, two fundamental issues which, despite an intense struggle from several fields, have not yet been resolved. What is the source of religious belief? How do religions work and what are they made of? Why is religion so important for us that it has survived centuries of scientific progress and secularization? Why are people religious even outside religion? The book addresses these questions using an interdisciplinary approach that seeks to untangle the Gordian knot of defining religion. In short, they can be considered entropy-reducing technologies. What differentiates them from other meaning-producing systems is their configuration which employs specific building blocks as tools for mitigating entropy, which are also subsystems and combine in various ways to build a unique configuration: rituals, myths, taboos, supernatural agents, authority, identity, superstitions, moral obligations, afterlife beliefs and the sacred. As a reaction to perturbances or pressure, systems can collap | | 出版日期 | Book 2023 | | 关键词 | Mongolian Shamanism; Zen Buddhism; Romanian Greek-Catholic Church; Complex Adaptive Systems; Romanian Or | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-4701-0 | | isbn_softcover | 978-981-99-4703-4 | | isbn_ebook | 978-981-99-4701-0 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |
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