Volkhard Krech, From Historicism to Functionalism: The Rise of Scientific Approaches to Religions around 1900 and Their Socio-Cultural Context, Numen, Vol. 47, No. 3, Religions in the Disenchanted ...

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Henrique Gomes & Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge): “Geometrodynamics as Functionalism about Time” A recent literature about a doctrine called ‘spacetime functionalism’ focuses on how the physics of ...

Peace Through Pieces and the Grain Deal There has been new-found optimism in Geneva, although fleeting, about the war in Ukraine; and it wasn’t because of ...

Functionalism has been a dominant force in sociology since the emergence of the discipline in Europe during the nineteenth century and is based largely on the work of legendary French social ...