Books written by Talal Asad
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Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
As for criticism, consider the difference between Asad's characterization and that, for instance, of Raymond Williams in Keywords.5 After querying whether “criticism signifies liberation,” Asad writes, “Let's bear in mind that the term ...
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On Suicide Bombing
Drawing on his extensive scholarship in the study of secular and religious traditions as well as his understanding of social, political and anthropological theory and research, Talal Asad questions Western assumptions regarding death and ...
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Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
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 ...
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Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam
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.
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Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today.
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Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
Four leading thinkers confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values.
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Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions.
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Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
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 ...
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On Suicide Bombing
On Suicide Bombing is an original and provocative analysis critiquing the work of intellectuals from both the left and the right.
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Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions.
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Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions.
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On Suicide Bombing
On Suicide Bombing
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Sekülerliğin biçimleri: Hıristiyanlık, İslamiyet ve modernlik
İÇİNDEKİLER Teşekkürler 9 Giriş: Sekülarizm Hakkında Düşünceler 11 SEKÜLER 1 Sekülarizm Antropolojisi Diye Bir Şey Olsa Neye Benzerdi? 33 Kökenlere İlişkin Bir Okuma: Mit, Hakikat ve Güç 39 "Kutsal" ve "Dindışı" ...