Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity Asad TalalPaperback
Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity Asad TalalPaperback Opening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the…
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Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity Asad TalalPaperback
Opening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East.Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the terrain it allegedly covers. It is a category with a multi-layered He argues that while anthropologists have oriented themselves to the study of the "strangeness of the non-European world" and to what are seen as non-rational dimensions of social life (things like myth, taboo, and religion), the modern and the secular have not been adequately examined.The conclusion is that the secular cannot be viewed as a successor to religion, or be seen as on the side of the rational.
Is Critique Secular? Asad Talal
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