Clashes of Knowledge Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Meusburger, Peter (Editor), Welker, Michael (Editor), Wunder, Edgar (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Series: Knowledge and Space, 1
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Educational sociology.; Education and sociology.; Sociology, Educational.; Human geography.; Cognitive psychology.; Social Sciences.; Human Geography.; Social Sciences, general.; History of Science.; Cognitive Psychology.; Sociology of Education.

"Clashes of Knowledge" is the first volume of a series called "Knowledge and Space" dealing with spatial disparities of knowledge and the impact of the spatial context on the production and application of knowledge. The contributions in this book explore the conflicts between var...

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 Research
• Turning Persuasion from an Art into a Science.