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Formations Of The Secular - Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Paperback)
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Formations Of The Secular - Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Paperback)
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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. 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.
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