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Sto caricando le informazioni... Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernitydi Talal Asad
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The book is a collection of previously published and new material that exposes the meaning of the secular and secularism. The author calls it "an anthropology of the secular." As it is very difficult to develop self-consciousness of one's own culture, the value of this book is that it pushes secular readers to do just that. There are challenges to self-understanding in this book that are well worth the price. The author makes secularists examine their assumptions about what constitutes a human being and the way of being human in a modern context. The book seems to be written for a scholarly audience and as such is loaded with jargon, convoluted sentences, and repetition that sometimes seem to obscure the authors ideas. The text would benefit from considerable editing. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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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 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 "strangeness of the non-European world" 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. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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