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.