Asad, Talal  <br/><br/>
Formations of the secular:   Christianity, Islam, modernity 

 - Stanford	  Stanford University Press	  2003 
 - 269p.,	  pbk.  
<br/><br/> https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=5403 
<br/><br/> "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.<br/><br/>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." 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780804747684     
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Secularism	<br/>Islam and Politics	<br/>Christianity and Politics
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>291.17   / ASA