Formations of the secular

Asad, Talal.

Formations of the secular Christianity, Islam, modernity / [electronic resource] : Talal Asad. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003. - 269 p. ; 24 cm. - Cultural memory in the present . - Cultural memory in the present. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

What might an anthropology of secularism look like? -- Thinking about agency and pain -- Reflections on cruelty and torture -- Redeeming the "human" through human rights -- Muslims as a "religious minority" in Europe -- Secularism, nation state, religion -- Reconfigurations of law and ethics in colonial Egypt.


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2009.
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Secularism.
Islam and politics.
Christianity and politics.


Electronic books.

BL2747.8 / A75 2003eb

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