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Author(s): David Scott, Charles Hirschkind
ISBN(s): 9781429416016, 1429416017
Edition: 1
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Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 1429416017
ISBN 13: 9781429416016
Author: David Scott, Charles Hirschkind

For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West’s knowledges―especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges―of the non-Western world. The essays that make up this volume treat diverse aspects of this remarkable body of work. Among them: the relationship between colonial power and academic knowledge; the historical shifts giving shape to the complexly interrelated categories of the secular and the religious, and the significance of these shifts in the emergence of modern Europe; and aspects of human embodiment, including some of the various ways that pain, emotion, embodied aptitude, and the senses connect with and structure cultural practices. While the specific themes and arguments addressed by the individual contributors range widely, the essays cohere in a shared orientation of both critical engagement and productive extension. Note that this is not a festschrift, nor a celebratory farewell, but a series of engagements with a thinker whose work is in full spate and deserves to be far better known and understood.

Powers of the Secular Modern Talal Asad and His Interlocutors 1st Table of contents:

Part I: The Theoretical Foundations of Secularism

Chapter 1: Talal Asad and the Critique of Secularism

  • Theoretical grounding of Asad’s work

  • Secularism and its relationship with modernity

  • Key works and intellectual influences

Chapter 2: Historicizing Secularism: From European Origins to Global Impact

  • Historical emergence of secularism in Europe

  • The global dissemination and adaptation of secular ideas

  • Asad’s critique of universal narratives of secularism

Part II: The Politics of Religion and Secularism

Chapter 3: Secularism and Political Theology

  • Asad’s influence on the study of political theology

  • Secularism as a form of governance and political power

  • The intersection of religion and politics in secular modern states

Chapter 4: The ‘Secular State’ and the Politics of Recognition

  • How the secular state constructs religious and non-religious identities

  • Asad’s approach to understanding the state’s role in regulating religion

  • Case studies and global examples of secular states

Part III: Interlocutors and Debates in Secularism Studies

Chapter 5: Asad and His Interlocutors: Challenging Liberal Secularism

  • Engaging with scholars who critique secularism from different perspectives

  • Dialogues with scholars such as Charles Taylor, José Casanova, and others

  • Contrasting views on religion, modernity, and secularism

Chapter 6: Religion and the Modern Subject: Reconstructing Identity and Belief

  • The transformation of religious identity in the modern secular age

  • The concept of the “modern subject” in relation to religion

  • Asad’s contributions to the anthropology of the self and belief

Part IV: Secularism, Modernity, and Beyond

Chapter 7: From Secularism to Secularities: A Global Perspective

  • The diversity of secular experiences across the globe

  • How secularism plays out differently in various cultural and political contexts

  • Moving beyond a Western-centric view of secularism

Chapter 8: Secularism and the Future of Religion in the Modern World

  • The ongoing relevance of religion in secular societies

  • Reflections on the future trajectory of secularism and its challenges

  • A global look at the rise of religion in post-secular contexts

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