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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

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      Publisher Columbia University Press
      Published 4 December 2018
      ISBN-13 9780231189866
      978-0231189866
      ISBN-10 0231189869

      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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