Religion and knowledge
Mathew Guest, Elisabeth Arweck · 2012
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About the book
This book addresses to relationship between religion and knowledge from a sociological perspective, taking both religion and knowledge as phenomena located within ever changing social contexts. It builds on historical foundations, but offers a distinctive focus on the changing status of religious phenomena at the turn of the twenty-first century. Including critical engagement with live debates about intelligent design and the 'new atheism', this collection of essays brings recent rsearch on religious movements into conversation with debates about socialisation, reflexivity and the changing capacity of social institutions to shape human identities. Contributors examine religion as an institutional context for the production of knowledge, as a form of knowledge to be transmitted or conveyed and as a social field in which controversies about knowledge emerge. -- Book Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Series
- Theology and religion in interdisciplinary perspective series
- Publisher
- Ashgate
- Editions
- 7
- Pages
- 308
- ISBN
- 9781409427070
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