... getting their babies to sleep at night. This programme also illustrates the changing status of parental knowledge compared with the accepted wisdom of experts. From Chapter 2, 'Religious Knowledge', I will consider the argument that society is becoming increasingly secular, against the view that we are as a society, no less spiritual, but may now seek to satisfy our religious desires from outside traditional faiths. Finally, in my conclusion, I will make brief reference to a recent survey indicating confusion by the general public about who the experts are. What then is knowledge? According to social science, knowledge is the production of meanings and ways of understanding the world. Rather than merely consisting of facts, knowledge is a complex social construction involving the language used or discourse, which can make the knowledge accessible to all or selectively, only to those who are privileged to understand it. Knowledge is not only concerned ...

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