In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities
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
“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
An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality Immortality has long been considered the domain of religion. But immortality projects have gained in
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