Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World: Faith, Fact and Fakery
Erkan Ali, "Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World: Faith, Fact and Fakery "
English | ISBN: 0367484536 | 2023 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
English | ISBN: 0367484536 | 2023 | 216 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Drawing on debates from a multi-disciplinary perspective, this book examines what it means to offer a genuine sociological critique of religious faith, illiberalism and anti-secularism from a macro perspective. Arguing that as a discipline concerned with real issues in the social world, sociology should be at the forefront of any analysis of religious power and legitimacy, the author contends that much religious faith is fundamentally incompatible with any twenty-first-century society that seeks inclusive, utilitarian and humanistic principles as its goals.
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