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Talal Asad and his interlocutors

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Powers of the secular modern: Talal Asad and his interlocutors
2006, Stanford University Press
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Cover of: Powers of the Secular Modern
Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors
2006, Stanford University Press
in English
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Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors (Cultural Memory in the Present)
January 4, 2006, Stanford University Press
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2006, Stanford University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The anthropological skepticism of Talal Asad / David Scott and Charles Hirschkind
Secularization revisited : a reply to Talal Asad / José Casanova
What is an "authorizing discourse"? / Steven C. Caton
Fasting for Laden : the politics of secularization in contemporary India / Partha Chatterjee
Europe : a minor tradition / William E. Connolly
Secularism and the argument from nature / Veena Das
On general and divine economy : Talal Asad's genealogy of the secular and Emmanuel Levinas's critique of capitalism, colonialism, and money / Hent de Vries
The tragic sensibility of Talal Asad / David Scott
The grammar of redemption / George Shulman
Subjects and agents in the history of imperialism and resistance / Jon E. Wilson
Responses / Talal Asad.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Stanford, Calif
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Cultural memory in the present

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Dewey Decimal Class
306/.01
Library of Congress
GN345 .P66 2006, GN345

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Pagination
p. cm.

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Open Library
OL3399612M
ISBN 10
0804752656, 0804752664
LCCN
2005013565
OCLC/WorldCat
60419707
Library Thing
5639167
Goodreads
1105695
349604

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