Powers of the secular modern : Talal Asad and his interlocutors - Scott, David, 1958-; Hirschkind, Charles (Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-338) and index.
Keywords: Asad, Talal -- Criticism and interpretation; Ethnology -- Philosophy; Ethnology -- Eastern Hemisphere -- Philosophy; Postcolonialism -- Eastern Hemisphere; Secularization -- Eastern Hemisphere