Law and Religion in the Development of a World Order
Sociologists, including social theorists in the tradition of Max Weber and sociologists of the world system such as Niklas Luhmann, have not attached adequate significance to the roles played by law and by religion in the gradual emergence of a self-conscious world society in the latter part of the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1991
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Sociological analysis
Year: 1991, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 27-36 |
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| Summary: | Sociologists, including social theorists in the tradition of Max Weber and sociologists of the world system such as Niklas Luhmann, have not attached adequate significance to the roles played by law and by religion in the gradual emergence of a self-conscious world society in the latter part of the twentieth century. This is due partly to their excessively narrow concepts both of law and of religion, and their consequent failure to recognize the close connection between the two. Also, Cartesian assumptions have resulted in a neglect of the time factor, which is crucial in both law and religion. Thus law regulates and resolves, in time, conflicts among constituent elements of the emerging world order, and religion redefines, in time, fundamental beliefs about the ultimate purpose and meaning of our ongoing experience as we become increasingly conscious that mankind has entered a new era of history. |
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| ISSN: | 2325-7873 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociological analysis
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3710713 |