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         <journal-id>ZYGO</journal-id>
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            <journal-title>Zygon®</journal-title>
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         <issn pub-type="print">0591-2385</issn>
         <issn pub-type="electronic">1467-9744</issn>
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         <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1111/j.1467-9744.1976.tb00292.x</article-id>
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            <article-title>INFORMATION PROCESS, SYSTEMS BEHAVIOR, AND THE STUDY OF RELIGION</article-title>
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               <name name-style="western">
                  <surname>Bowker</surname>
                  <given-names>J. W.</given-names>
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         <pub-date publication-format="electronic" iso-8601-date="1976-12-02">
            <day>02</day>
            <month>12</month>
            <year>1976</year>
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         <volume>11</volume>
         <issue>4</issue>
         <issue-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1111/zygo.1976.11.issue-4</issue-id>
         <fpage>361</fpage>
         <lpage>379</lpage>
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         <fn id="fn1">
            <label>1</label>
            <p>. Quoted from the Daily Herald (1961).</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn2">
            <label>2</label>
            <p>. Clifford Geertz, “Religion as a Cultural System,” in Anthropological Approaches to the Study cf Religion, ed. M. Banton (London: Tavistock Publications, 1966), p. 4.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn3">
            <label>3</label>
            <p>. Melford E. Spiro, “Religion: Problems of Definition and Explanation,” in ibid., p. 98.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn4">
            <label>4</label>
            <p>. Robert N. Bellah, “Religious Evolution,” in Sociology of Religion, ed. R. Robertson (London: Penguin Books, 1969), p. 263.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn5">
            <label>5</label>
            <p>. Hence, presumably, the attempt to make the study of “religion” more manageable by proposing six‐dimensional (N. Smart, Secular Education and the Logic of Religion [London: Faber &amp; Faber, 19681) or four‐dimensional (K. Ward, The Concept of God [Oxford: Blackwell, 19741) analyses.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn6">
            <label>6</label>
            <p>. J. W. Bowker, The Sense of God: Sociological, Anthropological and Psychological Approaches to the Origin of the Sense of God (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973). This book contains more detailed discussion of some of the points raised in this paper.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn7">
            <label>7</label>
            <p>. See, e.g., W. B.Brown,“Systems, Boundaries and Information Flow,”<source>Academy of Management Journal 
        </source>9(1966):317ff.; H.Aldrich,“Organizational Boundaries and Interorganizational Conflict,”<source>Human Relations 
        </source>24(1971):279 ff.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn8">
            <label>8</label>
            <p>. P. H. Lindsay and D. A. Norman, Human Information Processing: An Introduction to Psychology (New York: Academic Press, 1972).</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn9">
            <label>9</label>
            <p>. Bowker, pp. 53–54.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn10">
            <label>10</label>
            <p>. J. Z. Young, An Introduction to the Study of Man (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971), p. 524.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn11">
            <label>11</label>
            <p>. Bowker, p. 65.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn12">
            <label>12</label>
            <p>. F. Richards, Old Soldier Sahib (London: Faber &amp; Faber, 1965), p. 200.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn13">
            <label>13</label>
            <p>. William Blake, “Couplets and Fragments XXIII,” in The Poetical Works of William Blake, ed. W. M. Rossetti (London: S. Bell, 1914), p. 198.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn14">
            <label>14</label>
            <p>. C. C. J. Webb, “On Some Recent Movements in Philosophy,” in Transactions of the Third International Congress for the History of Religions, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1908), 2:422.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn15">
            <label>15</label>
            <p>. E. Lear, “Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos,” as quoted in The Golden Staircase, ed. L. Chisholm (London: T. C. &amp; E. C. Jack, 1928), p. 77.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn16">
            <label>16</label>
            <p>. Quoted from W. H. Auden, A Certain World (London: Faber &amp; Faber, 1970), p. 126.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn17">
            <label>17</label>
            <p>. The General Confession from the Book of Common Prayer (1662).</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn18">
            <label>18</label>
            <p>. Rom. 7:15.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn19">
            <label>19</label>
            <p>. Bowker, p. 88.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn20">
            <label>20</label>
            <p>. William Blake, “The Everlasting Gospel,” in Rossetti (n. 13 above), p. 144.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn21">
            <label>21</label>
            <p>. On this issue see Bowker, p. 108.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn22">
            <label>22</label>
            <p>. W. Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man (London: Pemberton Publishing Co., 1968), pp. 188 ff.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn23">
            <label>23</label>
            <p>. Ibid., p. 437.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn24">
            <label>24</label>
            <p>. Micah 6:8.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn25">
            <label>25</label>
            <p>. F. H. George, The Brain as a Computer (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 75.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn26">
            <label>26</label>
            <p>. For a fuller discussion of this see Bowker, pp. 131–33.</p>
         </fn>
         <fn id="fn27">
            <label>27</label>
            <p>. A. E. Jones, “Psych(o‐Analysis and Christian Religion,” in Essays in Applied Psycho‐Analysis (London: International Psychoanalytic Library, 195l), 2: 211.</p>
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