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Genealogies of Religion
Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam
Av Talal Asad
Häftad, 1993
397 kr
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In "Geneologies of Religion", Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. The idea that religion has undergone a radical change since the Christian Reformation-from totalitarian and socially repressive to private …
Secular Translations
Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
Av Talal Asad
Häftad, 2018
264 kr
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In Secular Translations, the 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, exploring the …
Secular Translations
Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
Av Talal Asad
Inbunden, 2018
1033 kr
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In Secular Translations, the 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, exploring the …
Formations of the Secular
Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Av Talal Asad
Häftad, 2003
298 kr
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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 secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the …
On Suicide Bombing
Av Talal Asad
Inbunden, 2007
220 kr
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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 of others. For many non-Muslims, "the suicide bomber" quickly became the icon of "an Islamic culture of death"--a conceptual leap that …
Formations of the Secular
Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Av Talal Asad
E-bok, 2003
300 kr
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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 secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the …
Is Critique Secular?
Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
Av Talal Asad, Wendy Brown m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1007 kr
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This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder our understanding of one of the most pressing …
Is Critique Secular?
Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech
Av Talal Asad, Wendy Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
303 kr
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This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today. What are the assumptions and resources internal to secular conceptions of critique that help or hinder our understanding of one of the most pressing …
Beyond the Untranslatable
Theorizing Postcolonial Translation
Av Gouranga Charan Pradhan, Katsuya Hirano m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
956 kr
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This collection examines postcolonial studies through the lens of translation studies, focusing on Asian and East Asian experiences. It redefines translation as a process of negotiating Otherness with language at its core.Following Talal Asad and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's critique, the book …
Beyond the Untranslatable
Theorizing Postcolonial Translation
Av Gouranga Charan Pradhan, Katsuya Hirano m. fl.
E-bok, 2026
956 kr
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This collection examines postcolonial studies through the lens of translation studies, focusing on Asian and East Asian experiences. It redefines translation as a process of negotiating Otherness with language at its core.Following Talal Asad and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's critique, the book …
Beyond the Untranslatable
Theorizing Postcolonial Translation
Av Talal Asad, Jun’ichi Isomae m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2504 kr
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This collection examines postcolonial studies through the lens of translation studies, focusing on Asian and East Asian experiences. It redefines translation as a process of negotiating Otherness with language at its core.Following Talal Asad and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s critique, the book …
Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter
Av Talal Asad
Häftad, 1995
373 kr
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"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 …
