Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity - Asad, Talal (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Secularism; Islam and politics; Christianity and politics