Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity /
T alal Asad.
- Stanford, Calif. : 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 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.
0804747687 (pbk.)
2002-011014
Secularism. Islam and politics. Christianity and politics.