Talal Asad
Autor de Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity
Sobre El Autor
Talal Asad is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Créditos de la imagen: faculty page, City University of New York
Obras de Talal Asad
Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (1993) 181 copias
Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech (Townsend Papers in the Humanities) (2009) 48 copias
Obras relacionadas
The Anthropology of Politics: A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique (2002) — Contribuidor — 33 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Asad, Talal
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1932
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Saudi Arabia
USA - País (para mapa)
- Saudi Arabia
USA - Lugar de nacimiento
- Medina, Saudi Arabia
- Educación
- Oxford University (B.Litt | 1962 | Ph.D | 1968)
University of Edinburgh (B.Sc|1959) - Ocupaciones
- cultural anthropologist
professor - Organizaciones
- City University of New York
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 15
- También por
- 3
- Miembros
- 630
- Popularidad
- #39,984
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 33
- Idiomas
- 2
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. It is often invokved to explain and justify the liberal politics and world view of modernity. And it leads to the view that "politicized religions" threaten both reason and liberty. Asad's essays explore and question all these assumptions. He argues that "religion" is a construction of European modernity, a construction that authorizes―for Westerners and non-Westerners alike―particular forms of "history making."… (más)