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9780231141529 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2007, cover price $24.95
Opening with the provocative query âwhat might an anthropology of the secular look like?â this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Middle East.Talal Asad proceeds to dismantle commonly held assumptions about the secular and the terrain it allegedly covers. He argues that while anthropologists have oriented themselves to the study of the âstrangeness of the non-European worldâ and to what are seen as non-rational dimensions of social life (things like myth, taboo, and religion),the modern and the secular have not been adequately examined.The conclusion is that the secular cannot be viewed as a successor to religion, or be seen as on the side of the rational. It is a category with a multi-layered history, related to major premises of modernity, democracy, and the concept of human rights. This book will appeal to anthropologists, historians, religious studies scholars, as well as scholars working on modernity. (view table of contents)
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9780804747677 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Opening with the provocative query âwhat might an anthropology of the secular look like?
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9780804747684 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $23.95
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Hardcover:
9780804734967 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $85.00
Product Description: "We have been reminded time and again by anthropologists of the ideas and ideals of the Enlightenment in which the intellectual inspiration of anthropology is supposed to lie. But anthropology is also rooted in an unequal power encounter between the West and the Third World, which goes back to the emergence of bourgeois Europe, an encounter in which colonialism is merely one historical moment...read more
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9780391003910 | Prometheus Books, June 1, 1995, cover price $17.50 | also contains Dk Eyewitness Top 10 Sydney | About this edition: "We have been reminded time and again by anthropologists of the ideas and ideals of the Enlightenment in which the intellectual inspiration of anthropology is supposed to lie.
9781573925891 | Humanity Books, June 1, 1995, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: "We have been reminded time and again by anthropologists of the ideas and ideals of the Enlightenment in which the intellectual inspiration of anthropology is supposed to lie.
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9780801846311 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $60.00
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9780801846328 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $30.00
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9780853456377 | Monthly Review Pr, March 1, 1984, cover price $14.00
Hardcover:
9780900966217 | Gardners Books, December 31, 1970, cover price $66.60
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