Powers of the secular modern :  Talal Asad and his interlocutors / 
edited by David Scott and Charles Hirschkind. 
 - Stanford, Calif. :  Stanford University Press,  2006. 
 - x, 355 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - Cultural memory in the present .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-338) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0804752656 (cloth : alk. paper) 0804752664 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780804752664 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2005-013565 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/> Asad, Talal--Criticism and interpretation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethnology--Philosophy.<br/>Ethnology--Philosophy.--Eastern Hemisphere<br/>Postcolonialism--Eastern Hemisphere.<br/>Secularization--Eastern Hemisphere.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.01