Theory of Knowledge - Course Companion for Students Marija Uzunova Dang Arvin Singh Uzunov Dang

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Knowledge
religion
world’s religions, across time, serve as repositories of knowledge while also holding a continued
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significance: religious themes are woven into cultural practices, literature, history, film and
social
Even our ability to fully grasp current events—elections, policies, revolutions, movements and
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informed by our understanding of religion. Religious practices and rituals powerfully
conflicts—is
identity across the generations and collapse the past into the present. In an increasingly
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interconnected world, diverse examples of religious knowledge and practices encounter
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another, and stand together, their uniqueness perhaps diminished, in the face of what some have
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as a modern monoculture. In this chapter, we add depth to our understanding of human
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knowledge by looking at its relationship withreligion.
Initial discussion
• Who has religious knowledge and what is it about?
• What are legitimate sources of religious knowledge and what makes them so?
• What does it mean for a religious claim to be true or false, and who can decide?
• How can disagreements between conflicting religious claims be dealt with?
• How is the process of producing and acquiring religious knowledge similar to or different from this process for
other types of knowledge?
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