00855nam a2200277 i 450099100130433970753620020507114122.0970308s1971 uk ||| | eng 0592028070b10201956-39ule_instLE00645536ExLDip.to Fisicaita621.3.2621.381'54TK7871.98Hyde, F.J.464319Thermistors /F.J. HydeLondon :Iliffe Books Ltd,1971197 p. ;22 cm.Thermistors.b1020195621-09-0627-06-02991001304339707536LE006 621.3.2 HYD12006000054683le006-E0.00-l- 00000.i1024971027-06-02Thermistors192503UNISALENTOle00601-01-97ma -enguk 0103744nam 22004935 450 991073601440332120230731075311.0981-9947-01-410.1007/978-981-99-4701-0(MiAaPQ)EBC30670609(Au-PeEL)EBL30670609(DE-He213)978-981-99-4701-0(CKB)27899949800041(EXLCZ)992789994980004120230731d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierComplexifying Religion /by Andrei-Razvan Coltea1st ed. 2023.Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Springer,2023.1 online resource (335 pages)Print version: Coltea, Andrei-Razvan Complexifying Religion Singapore : Springer,c2023 9789819947003 1 - Religions as Complex Adaptive Systems: Structure and F unction -- 2 – Why Systems Collapse -- 3 – The Fragility of Orthodox Church -- 4 – The Attempted Murder of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church -- CHAPTER 5 – Spiritual Wanderers -- CHAPTER 6 – Totalitarian Regimes as Religious CAS -- 6 – Totalitarian Regimes as Religious CAS -- 7 – Shamanism in Mongolia.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 collapse. Inspired by Nicholas Nassim Taleb, it is, in this book, referred to as fragility—the negative reaction of systems to random events, and four parameters can be used to evaluate it in religious systems: monotonicity (the inability to learn from past mistakes), coupling (linking with other systems: such as political or economic), centralization and stress starvation. Several case studies are provided in order to test the theoretical claims made in this book, based on the author's field research in Romania, Japan, North Korea and Mongolia, and offering details that could be of interest to casual readers, students and researchers of religion.PhilosophyReligion and scienceIntercultural Philosophy and Religious TraditionsReligion and SciencesPhilosophy.Religion and science.Intercultural Philosophy and Religious Traditions.Religion and Sciences.100Coltea Andrei-Razvan1380189MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910736014403321Complexifying Religion3421468UNINA