Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present) Paperback - 2003
by Asad, Talal
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- Title Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Cultural Memory in the Present)
- Author Asad, Talal
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 280
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA
- Date 2003-02-03
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR006275825
- ISBN 9780804747684 / 0804747687
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 0.73 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 1.85 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Religious Orientation: Islamic
- Library of Congress subjects Christianity and politics, Islam and politics
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002011014
- Dewey Decimal Code 291.17
From the jacket flap
Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the terrain it allegedly covers. 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. It is a category with a multi-layered history, related to major premises of modernity, democracy, and the concept of human rights. This book will appeal to anthropologists, historians, religious studies scholars, as well as scholars working on modernity.
