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In Secular Translations, anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities in our concepts of the religious and the secular through a rich consideration of translatability and untranslatability.

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Well worth reading...an excellent instance of the value of anthropological concepts for the study of religion and the social importance of theology. -- Timothy Jenkins, Cambridge University * Modern Theology *
Asad remains essential reading. * Muslim World Book Review *
This is an immensely rich text, undoubtedly Asad’s tour de force. * Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies *

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Secular Equality and Religious Language
2. Translation and the Sensible Body
3. Masks, Security, and the Language of Numbers
Epilogue
Notes
Index

Secular Translations

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    Publisher: Columbia University Press
    Publication Date: 04/12/2018
    ISBN13: 9780231189873, 978-0231189873
    ISBN10: 0231189877
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    In Secular Translations, anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities in our concepts of the religious and the secular through a rich consideration of translatability and untranslatability.

    Trade Review
    Well worth reading...an excellent instance of the value of anthropological concepts for the study of religion and the social importance of theology. -- Timothy Jenkins, Cambridge University * Modern Theology *
    Asad remains essential reading. * Muslim World Book Review *
    This is an immensely rich text, undoubtedly Asad’s tour de force. * Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies *

    Table of Contents
    Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    1. Secular Equality and Religious Language
    2. Translation and the Sensible Body
    3. Masks, Security, and the Language of Numbers
    Epilogue
    Notes
    Index

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