This is our backup site. Click here to visit our main site at MellenPress.com

Luhmann, Niklas

Religious Dogmatics and the Evolution of Societies
1984 0-88946-866-4
Renders Luhmann's Religiƶse Dogmatik und gesellschaftliche Funktion (Chapter Two of his 1977 Funktion der Religion), which has been the subject of much discussion and controversy in Europe over the past fifteen years, accessible to the English-speaking world, where Luhmann's sociological theories have received comparatively little attention. Beyer also provides a 50-page introduction which treats of some of the main concepts in Luhmann's abstract and difficult thought and also illustrates the way these concepts fit into his overall theory of society and religion.