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Title Formations of the secular : Christianity, Islam, modernity / Talal Asad.
Author Asad, Talal.
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2003.


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 In Library  Standard  Library Level 10  Theology AV340 ASA  
 In Library  1 week  Library Level 10  Theology AV340 ASA  
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Description ix, 269 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN 0804747687 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804747679 (cloth : alk. paper)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Series Cultural memory in the present
Library Class Theology AV340
Subject Secularism.
Islam and politics.
Christianity and politics.

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