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Andre Béteille is one of India's leading sociologists and writers. He is particularly well known for his studies of the caste system in South India.

He was a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics at the University of Delhi where he is Professor Emeritus of Sociology since 2003.Béteille has written insightfully about all the major questions of the day: India's encounters with the West, the contest between religion and secularism, the relationship between caste and class, the links between poverty and inequality, the nurturing of public institutions, the role and responsibilities of the intellectual.

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Entropy and the idea of god(s): a philosophical approach to religion as a complex adaptive system, 1. introduction: religion as a complex adaptive system.

Remove one of the building blocks, and the adaptive functionality of the religious system will be compromised. A religious system that lacks organization (authority), fails to impart significance (meaning), forsakes ceremonial activity (ritual), maintains no limits on activity (taboo), is unable to sanctify anything (sacred), offers no beings capable of transcending the natural world (supernatural agents), does not establish social commitments (moral obligation), or provides no narrative that can link all of these elements together into an explanatory framework (myth) will ultimately falter or transform into some other kind of social institution. Notably, religious systems are impressively resistant to the elimination of one of their core building blocks… ( Purzycki and Sosis 2022, pp. 146–7 )

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