Truth Claims in a Post-Truth World

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

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