Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World

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.

Autorentext

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.

Inhalt

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