Powers of the secular modern : Talal Asad and his interlocutors /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Scott, David, 1958-, Hirschkind, Charles
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2006.
Series:	Cultural memory in the present.
Subjects:	Ethnology > Philosophy. Ethnology > Eastern Hemisphere > Philosophy. Postcolonialism > Eastern Hemisphere. Secularization > Eastern Hemisphere. Asad, Talal > Criticism and interpretation.
Online Access:	Table of contents

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 Bin 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
Redemption, secularization, and politics / George Shulman
Subjects and agents in the history of imperialism and resistance / Jon E. Wilson
Responses / Talal Asad.