TY - BOOK AU - Asad,Talal TI - Formations of the secular : : Christianity, Islam, modernity / SN - 0804747687 (pbk.) U1 - 291.17 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Stanford, Calif. : PB - Stanford University Press, KW - Secularism KW - Islam and politics KW - Christianity and politics N1 - 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 ER -