Clashes of knowledge: orthodoxies and heterodoxies in science and religion

Do traditional distinctions between 'belief' and 'knowledge' still make sense? How are differences between knowledge and belief understood in different cultural contexts? This book explores conflicts between various types of knowledge, especially between orthodox and heterodox kn...

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Other Authors: Meusburger, Peter (Editor) , Welker, Michael (Editor) , Wunder, Edgar (Editor)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: [London, Heidelberg u.a.] Springer Science + Business Media 2008
Edition:1. Aufl.
Series:Knowledge and space 1
In: Knowledge and space (1)

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Author Notes:Peter Meusburger ..., ed.
Table of Contents:
  • Forms of Knowledge: Problems, Projects, Perspectives; The Nexus of Knowledge and Space; Cultural Boundaries: Settled and Unsettled; Actors' and Analysts' Categories in the Social Analysis of Science; Science and the Limits of Knowledge; Science and Religion in Popular Publishing in 19th-Century Britain; Reason, Faith, and Gnosis: Potentials and Problematics of a Typological Construct; The Demarcation Problem of Knowledge and Faith: Questions and Answers from Theology; Types of Sacred Space and European Responses to New Religious Movements; When Faiths Collide: The Case of Fundamentalism
  • The Theory of Cognitive Dissonance: State of the Science and Directions for Future ResearchTurning Persuasion from an Art into a Science