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Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity / Talal Asad.

Author/creator Asad, Talal
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.
Description269 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Cultural memory in the present
Cultural memory in the present. ^A403800
Contents Introduction : 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2002011014
ISBN0804747679 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0804747687 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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