Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
ISBN: 9780231548595
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Secularism; Language and languages; Reasoning; Secularization; Religion and culture; State The;

In Secular Translations , anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities in our concepts of the religious and the secular through a rich consideration of translatability and untranslatability.

Asad Talal :

Talal Asad is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center. He is the author of many books, most recently On Suicide Bombing (Columbia 2009).Talal Asad is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His many books include Formations of the Secular (2003) and On Suicide Bombing (Columbia, 2007).


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