Formations of the Secular :
Asad, Talal.
Formations of the Secular : Christianity, Islam, Modernity / Talal Asad. - Stanford, California : 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) 9780804747684
2002011014
Secularism.
Islam and politics.
Christianity and politics.
BL2747.8 / .A75 2003
C37.1 / AS110
Formations of the Secular : Christianity, Islam, Modernity / Talal Asad. - Stanford, California : 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) 9780804747684
2002011014
Secularism.
Islam and politics.
Christianity and politics.
BL2747.8 / .A75 2003
C37.1 / AS110