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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cultural memory in the presentPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.Description: 269 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0804747687 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 291.17   22
Contents:
What might an anthropology of secularism look like? -- Thinking abou t agency and pain -- Reflections on cruelty and torture -- Redeeming th e "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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

What might an anthropology of secularism look like? -- Thinking abou t agency and pain -- Reflections on cruelty and torture -- Redeeming th e "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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