Ethnographies Of Doubt Faith And Uncertainty In Contemporary Societies
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9781848858107
Description: This title shows that a focus on uncertainty and doubt is indispensible for grasping the role of ideas in social action. Drawing on a wide-range of cases, it analyses the ways in which doubt is overcome and, conversely, how belief-systems collapse.