Asad, Talal
Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity Talal Asad - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2003. - 269 p. ; 24 cm. - Cultural memory in the present .
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.
9780804747684 0804747687 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780804747677 9780804747684
2002011014
Secularism
Islam and politics
Christianity and politics
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Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity Talal Asad - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2003. - 269 p. ; 24 cm. - Cultural memory in the present .
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.
9780804747684 0804747687 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780804747677 9780804747684
2002011014
Secularism
Islam and politics
Christianity and politics
291.1/7