Religion and Knowledge: Sociological Perspectives

by Mathew Guest

Religions have always been associated with particular forms of knowledge, often knowledge accorded special significance and sometimes knowledge at odds with prevailing understandings of truth and authority in wider society. New religious movements emerge on the basis of reformulated, often controversial, understandings of how the world works and where ultimate meaning can be found. Governments have risen and fallen on the basis of such differences...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409427072
• ISBN13: 9781409427070
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"