Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity /
Asad, Talal.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
2003.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What might an anthropology of secularism look like? -- Thinking about agency and pain -- Reflections on cruelty and torture -- Redeeming the "human" through human rights -- Muslims as a "religious minority" in Europe -- Secularism, nation state, religion -- Reconfigurations of law and ethics in colonial Egypt.
Secularism.
Islam and politics.
Christianity and politics.