Formations of the secular
Subtitle: Christianity, Islam, modernity
By: Talal Asad.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Secularism; Islam and politics; Christianity and politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What might an anthropology of secularism look like?; title: Thinking about agency and pain; title: Reflections on cruelty and torture; title: Redeeming the "human" through human rights; title: Muslims as a "religious minority" in Europe; title: Secularism, nation state, religion; title: Reconfigurations of law and ethics in colonial Egypt.