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Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity

Title
Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity / Talal Asad.
Author
Asad, Talal.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.

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Description
269 pages; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Cultural memory in the present
Uniform Title
Cultural memory in the present.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Thinking about Secularism -- 1. What Might an Anthropology of Secularism Look Like? -- 2. Thinking about Agency and Pain -- 3. Reflections on Cruelty and Torture -- 4. Redeeming the "Human" Through Human Rights -- 5. Muslims as a "Religious Minority" in Europe -- 6. Secularism, Nation-State, Religion -- 7. Reconfigurations of Law and Ethics in Colonial Egypt.
ISBN
  • 0804747679 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780804747677 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0804747687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780804747684 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002011014
OCLC
  • ocm50234973
  • SCSB-4343672
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries