Religion and knowledge
Subtitle: sociological perspectives
By: edited by Mathew Guest and Elisabeth Arweck
Series: Theology and religion in interdisciplinary perspective series
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781409427070; 9781409427087
Subjects: Religion and sociology; Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.