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Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity / Talal Asad.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural memory in the presentPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.Description: 269 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0804747679 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804747687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291.17 22
Contents:
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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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Books Books Library, Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB) Available at Centre for Social Science Research 291.17 A798f 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 01 Not For Loan 022917
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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.