Talal Asad
Auteur van Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Over de Auteur
Talal Asad is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Fotografie: faculty page, City University of New York
Werken van Talal Asad
Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (1993) 181 exemplaren
Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech (Townsend Papers in the Humanities) (2009) 48 exemplaren
Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason (Ruth Benedict Book Series) (2018) 24 exemplaren
2 Thinking About Secularism And Law In Egypt 1 exemplaar
Gerelateerde werken
The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (2002) — Medewerker — 33 exemplaren
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- Asad, Talal
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- Medina, Saudi Arabia
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- Oxford University (B.Litt | 1962 | Ph.D | 1968)
University of Edinburgh (B.Sc|1959) - Beroepen
- cultural anthropologist
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- City University of New York
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The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation―from totalitarian and socially repressive to private and relatively benign―is a familiar part of the story of secularization. It is often invokved to explain and justify the liberal politics and world view of modernity. And it leads to the view that "politicized religions" threaten both reason and liberty. Asad's essays explore and question all these assumptions. He argues that "religion" is a construction of European modernity, a construction that authorizes―for Westerners and non-Westerners alike―particular forms of "history making."… (meer)