Powers of the secular modern
Subtitle: Talal Asad and his interlocutors
By: edited by David Scott and Charles Hirschkind.
Contributors: Scott, David, 1958-; Hirschkind, Charles.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
Subjects: Asad, Talal -- Criticism and interpretation; Ethnology -- Philosphy; Ethnology -- Eastern Hemisphere -- Philosophy; Postcolonialism -- Eastern Hemisphere; Secularization -- Eastern Hemisphere
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The anthropological skepticism of Talal Asad / David Scott and Charles Hirschkind; title: Secularization revisited : a reply to Talal Asad / José Casanova; title: What is an "authorizing discourse"? / Steven C. Caton; title: Fasting for Laden : the politics of secularization in contemporary India / Partha Chatterjee; title: Europe : a minor tradition / William E. Connolly; title: Secularism and the argument from nature / Veena Das; title: 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; title: The tragic sensibility of Talal Asad / David Scott; title: The grammar of redemption / George Shulman; title: Subjects and agents in the history of imperialism and resistance / Jon E. Wilson; title: Responses / Talal Asad.