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Formations of the secular [electronic resource] : Christianity, Islam, modernity / Talal Asad.

By: Asad, Talal.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Cultural memory in the present: Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003Description: 269 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Secularism | Islam and politics | Christianity and politicsGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 291.1/7 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.
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291.1/7 (Browse shelf) Available

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.