Formations of the Secular Christianity, Islam, Modernity

Name: Formations of the Secular Christianity, Islam, Modernity
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ISBN: 9780804747684

ISBN-10: 0804747687

ISBN-13: 9780804747684

Edition: 2003

Authors: Talal Asad

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Opening with the provocative query 'what might an anthropology of the secular look like?' this work explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities in the modern West and Middle East.

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 2/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 280
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Talal Asad is a professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the author of Formations of the Secularand Genealogies of Religion.



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Thinking about Secularism


Secular



What Might an Anthropology of Secularism Look Like?



Thinking about Agency and Pain



Reflections on Cruelty and Torture


Secularism



Redeeming the "Human" Through Human Rights



Muslims as a "Religious Minority" in Europe



Secularism, Nation-State, Religion


Secularization



Reconfigurations of Law and Ethics in Colonial Egypt


Index