TY  - BOOK
AU  - Asad, Talal 
TI  - Formations of the secular: : Christianity, Islam, modernity
SN  - 9780804747684    
U1  - 291.17  
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Stanford	
PB  - Stanford University Press	
KW  - Secularism	
KW  - Islam and Politics	
KW  - Christianity and Politics
N1  - https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=5403
N2  - "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."
ER  -