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Powers of the secular modern [electronic resource] : Talal Asad and his interlocutors / edited by David Scott and Charles Hirschkind.

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Series: Cultural memory in the presentPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.Description: x, 355 p. ; 24 cmSubject(s):

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Electronic books.

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306/.01 22

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GN345 .P66 2006eb

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Contents:

Introduction: The anthropological skepticism of Talal Asad / David Scott and Charles Hirschkind -- Secularization revisited : a reply to Talal Asad / José Casanova -- What is an "authorizing discourse"? / Steven C. Caton -- Fasting for Bin Laden : the politics of secularization in contemporary India / Partha Chatterjee -- Europe : a minor tradition / William E. Connolly -- Secularism and the argument from nature / Veena Das -- On general and divine economy : Talal Asad's genealogy of the secular and Emmanuel Levinas's critique of capitalism, colonialism, and money / Hent de Vries -- The tragic sensibility of Talal Asad / David Scott -- Redemption, secularization, and politics / George Shulman -- Subjects and agents in the history of imperialism and resistance / Jon E. Wilson -- Responses / Talal Asad.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-338) and index.

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