I am new to Clojure and I am struggling to understand what the point made of the author is.

I understood the Data Orientation of Clojure as building mostly map-shaped, atom-wrapped representation of application state, and then functions and procedures that operate and transact on that state.

The ref to the data being the "backbone" of the application (so data oriented). Is this incorrect?

It seems to me like he's actually criticising the "data programmable engine" (I just finished Joy of Clojure where they describe it) where you feed data to a function to change it's behaviour (as opposed to example passing in a function?)

I am genuinely asking.