332 Book Reviews / Exchange 36 (2007) 322-333 1 Cf. Niklas Luhmann, Soziale Systeme: Grundriss einer allgemeinen Th eorie , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1984; Niklas Luhmann, Die Gesellschaft der Gesellschaft , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 1997. Peter Beyer, Religions in Global Society , London and New York: Routledge 2006. viii + 323 p., ISBN 0-415-39319-1. Paperback price US $ 41.95. Th e book’s aim is ‘to offer a way of understanding the variety and the contradiction, of comprehending religion as a form and function, as mainspring of power, conflict and cohe- sion, as social resource and social problem; but
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