Collision Of Epistemological Frameworks: Religion And Social Sciences Unshared Understanding Of Ethics

Abstract

Religious scholars and social science experts frequently differ and sometimes clash when writing and discussing issues of ethics. Sometimes unshared understandings on fundamental world-view issues is the etiology for these differences.  Differences in defining truth, whether philosophically or empirically, often is at the root etiology in these differences.  Practical suggestions are offered in order to help scholars of religion and the social sciences better to communicate and collaborate in professional and scholarly milieus.