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Anthropology of the Secular
Dec. 4th, 2005 09:21 pmFormations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Talal Asad, Stanford University Press, 2003.
"What is the connection between 'the secular' as an epistemic category and 'secularism' as a political doctrine? Can they be objects of anthropological inquiry? What might an anthropology of secularism look like? This book attempts, in a preliminary way, to address these questions." (p. 1)
( Introduction: Thinking about Secularism )
( Chapter 1 Notes... )
( Chapter 2 Notes... )
( Some stray quotes from other chapters... )
Talal Asad, Stanford University Press, 2003.
"What is the connection between 'the secular' as an epistemic category and 'secularism' as a political doctrine? Can they be objects of anthropological inquiry? What might an anthropology of secularism look like? This book attempts, in a preliminary way, to address these questions." (p. 1)
( Introduction: Thinking about Secularism )
( Chapter 1 Notes... )
( Chapter 2 Notes... )
( Some stray quotes from other chapters... )
