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Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-12-04 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities
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Language: en
Pages: 138
Authors: Talal Asad
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-05-11 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response
Formations of the Secular
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Talal Asad
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-02-03 - Publisher: Stanford University Press

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“A dark but brilliantly original work . . . one of the most important books on religion and the modern in recent years.” —H-Net Reviews Opening with the p
On Not Dying
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An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality Immortality has long been considered the domain of religion. But immortality projects have gained in
Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority
Language: en
Pages: 134
Authors: John Calvin
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-09-27 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Martin Luther and John Calvin were the principal 'magistral' Reformers of the sixteenth-century: they sought to enlist the cooperation of rulers in the work of