Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World

ISBN-13: 9780367484538 / Twarda / 2023 / 280 str.

China) Ali Erkan (Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

Opis

Drawing on debates from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book examines what it means to offer a genuine sociological critique of religious faith and anti-secularism from a macro perspective.

Spis treści

1. Oh, Your God! The Sociological Case Against Religious Faith  2. Morality and Society  3. Secularisation and the Necessity of Secularity  4. Campus Chaos: Postmodern Thought as Intellectual Crisis  5. The Rise of a New Orthodoxy: Woke "Justice" and the Sleep of Reason  6. Pardon the Expression: Islam, Media Representation and Censorship  7. Sociology and Its Special and General Theories of Relativism  Conclusion: The Persistence of Intuitions and the Fear of Knowledge

O autorze

Erkan Ali is Lecturer at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, China, and the author of Interpreting Visual Ethnography: Texts, Photos and the Construction of Sociological Meanings.