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Acknowledgements
Introduction-A Complex World
Contents
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1 Religions as Complex Adaptive Systems: Structure and Function
1.1 What Are Complex Adaptive Systems?
1.2 Religions as Complex Adaptive Systems
1.3 Entropy, Complexity and Randomness
1.4 The Building Blocks of Religious Complex Adaptive Systems
2 Why Systems Collapse
2.1 Adapting to Randomness
2.2 Pandemics as Strong Perturbances
2.2.1 The Athenian Plague
2.2.2 The 'Spanish Flu' in South Africa
2.2.3 AIDS in Malawi
2.2.4 The Black Death in Europe
2.3 The Pathologies of Religious CAS: Anomie, Terror and Secularization
3 The Fragility of the Romanian Orthodox Church
3.1 The ROC before Communism: Symphonia and Monotonicity
3.2 The Centralization Process of the ROC During the Early years of Communism (1948-1965)
3.3 Coupling and Stress Starvation: The ROC During the Ceausescu Regime (1965-1989)
3.4 Miracles, Persecution and Heresy: The Cult of Arsenie Boca
3.5 The Romanian Orthodoxy After 1990
3.6 Orthodox National Identity and Belonging Without Behaving or Believing
4 The Attempted Murder of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church
4.1 From a Broken Promise to an Underground Church
4.2 The Controversial Case of Sister Ionela: Bloody Stigmas and Premonitory Visions
4.3 The Romanian Greek-Catholic Church After 1989 and the Ongoing Conflict with the ROC
5 Spiritual Wanderers
5.1 From Anomie to Individuo-Globalism
5.2 Chasing the True Self
5.3 The Spiritual Refugees of Sogenji
6 Totalitarian Regimes as Religious CAS
6.1 The Sacred Struggle
6.2 A Journey Through Time
6.3 Jucheism: Worship of a Revolution and Its Leader
6.4 Childhood Memories
6.5 The Father of All Turkmen
6.6 The Voudou 'President for Life'
7 Shamanism in Mongolia
7.1 Boo Boonoor Ondoo Boolodog
7.2 Shamanic Encounters
7.3 The Shaman Festival 2023
7.4 Religion and Intolerance of Uncertainty in Mongolia
Conclusions
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Introduction-A Complex World
Contents
Abbreviations
1 Religions as Complex Adaptive Systems: Structure and Function
1.1 What Are Complex Adaptive Systems?
1.2 Religions as Complex Adaptive Systems
1.3 Entropy, Complexity and Randomness
1.4 The Building Blocks of Religious Complex Adaptive Systems
2 Why Systems Collapse
2.1 Adapting to Randomness
2.2 Pandemics as Strong Perturbances
2.2.1 The Athenian Plague
2.2.2 The 'Spanish Flu' in South Africa
2.2.3 AIDS in Malawi
2.2.4 The Black Death in Europe
2.3 The Pathologies of Religious CAS: Anomie, Terror and Secularization
3 The Fragility of the Romanian Orthodox Church
3.1 The ROC before Communism: Symphonia and Monotonicity
3.2 The Centralization Process of the ROC During the Early years of Communism (1948-1965)
3.3 Coupling and Stress Starvation: The ROC During the Ceausescu Regime (1965-1989)
3.4 Miracles, Persecution and Heresy: The Cult of Arsenie Boca
3.5 The Romanian Orthodoxy After 1990
3.6 Orthodox National Identity and Belonging Without Behaving or Believing
4 The Attempted Murder of the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church
4.1 From a Broken Promise to an Underground Church
4.2 The Controversial Case of Sister Ionela: Bloody Stigmas and Premonitory Visions
4.3 The Romanian Greek-Catholic Church After 1989 and the Ongoing Conflict with the ROC
5 Spiritual Wanderers
5.1 From Anomie to Individuo-Globalism
5.2 Chasing the True Self
5.3 The Spiritual Refugees of Sogenji
6 Totalitarian Regimes as Religious CAS
6.1 The Sacred Struggle
6.2 A Journey Through Time
6.3 Jucheism: Worship of a Revolution and Its Leader
6.4 Childhood Memories
6.5 The Father of All Turkmen
6.6 The Voudou 'President for Life'
7 Shamanism in Mongolia
7.1 Boo Boonoor Ondoo Boolodog
7.2 Shamanic Encounters
7.3 The Shaman Festival 2023
7.4 Religion and Intolerance of Uncertainty in Mongolia
Conclusions
Bibliography