Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity /

Asad, Talal.

Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity / Talal Asad. - Stanford, California, United States : Stanford University Press, (c)2003. - 1 online resource (269 pages) - Cultural memory in the present .

Original printing: 2002.

Includes bibliographies 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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Secularism.
Islam and politics.
Christianity and politics.


Electronic Books.

BL2747 / .F676 2003