Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity / Talal Asad.
By: Asad, Talal.
Material type: TextSeries: Cultural memory in the present. Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003Description: 269 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0804747679 (cloth : alk. paper); 0804747687 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Secularism | Islam and politics | Christianity and politicsDDC classification: 291.17 Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher descriptionItem type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Prof. G. K. Chadha Library
South Asian University |
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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.