Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity /
Asad, Talal.
Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity / Talal Asad. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003. - 269 p. ; 24 cm. - 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.
0804747679 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804747687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Secularism.
Islam and politics.
Christianity and politics.
291.17
Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity / Talal Asad. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003. - 269 p. ; 24 cm. - 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.
0804747679 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804747687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Secularism.
Islam and politics.
Christianity and politics.
291.17