Powers of the secular modern : Talal Asad and his interlocutors / edited by David Scott and Charles Hirschkind.

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TextSeries: Cultural memory in the presentPublication details: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.Description: x, 355 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0804752656 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804752664 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804752664

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306.01 22

Contents:

Introduction: The anthropological skepticism of Talal Asad / David S cott and Charles Hirschkind -- Secularization revisited : a reply to Ta lal Asad / Josâe Casanova -- What is an "authorizing discourse"? / Stev en C. Caton -- Fasting for Bin Laden : the politics of secularization i n contemporary India / Partha Chatterjee -- Europe : a minor tradition / William E. Connolly -- Secularism and the argument from nature / Veen a Das -- On general and divine economy : Talal Asad's genealogy of the secular and Emmanuel Levinas's critique of capitalism, colonialism, and money / Hent de Vries -- The tragic sensibility of Talal Asad / David Scott -- Redemption, secularization, and politics / George Shulman -- S ubjects and agents in the history of imperialism and resistance / Jon E . Wilson -- Responses / Talal Asad.

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