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The word energy originally means labor, being used to express the ability to produce a movement of a body. The contemporary uses of the term result in a synthesis produced by global religious syncretism and by advances in physics and psychology. The release of energy paradigm in the social sciences is done by slowly replacing the old mechanical paradigm of Cartesian inspiration for another paradigm that values the ecology and new perceptions of the human being.

Introduction

The word energy derives from the Greek “ergos” which means primarily labor, being used to express a body’s ability to produce movement. This expression is unknown by modern science based on the Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm (Capra 1975, 1982), the underpinnings of which are the mechanism metaphor and the matter-energy duality. By explaining objects as energy movement and by demonstrating that particles and waves are one single phenomenon, the “new physics,” including A. Einstein, N. Bohr, W. Heisenberg,...

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  1. Pernambuco Federal University (UFPE), CNPq, Latin American Sociology Association (ALAS) and REALIS (Journal of Anti-Utilitarian and Post-Colonial Studies), Pernambuco, Brazil

    Paulo Henrique Martins

  2. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Rua do Marques, 177/502, 52060-280, Recife, Brazil

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Martins, P.H. (2015). Energy. In: Gooren, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08956-0_23-1

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