Secular Translations (inbunden)
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Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
232
Utgivningsdatum
2018-12-04
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Columbia University Press
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218 x 140 x 20 mm
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386 g
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1
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9780231189866

Secular Translations

Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason

av Talal Asad
Inbunden,  Engelska, 2018-12-04
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In Secular Translations, the 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, exploring the circuitous movements of ideas between histories and cultures. In search of meeting points between the language of Islam and the language of secular reason, Asad gives particular importance to the translations of religious ideas into nonreligious ones. He discusses the claim that liberal conceptions of equality represent earlier Christian ideas translated into secularism; explores the ways that the language and practice of religious ritual play an important but radically transformed role as they are translated into modern life; and considers the history of the idea of the self and its centrality to the project of the secular state. Secularism is not only an abstract principle that modern liberal democratic states espouse, he argues, but also a range of sensibilities. The shifting vocabularies associated with each of these sensibilities are fundamentally intertwined with different ways of life. In exploring these entanglements, Asad shows how translation opens the door foror requiresthe utter transformation of the translated. Drawing on a diverse set of thinkers ranging from al-Ghazl to Walter Benjamin, Secular Translations points toward new possibilities for intercultural communication, seeking a language for our time beyond the language of the state.
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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 Asads tour de force. * Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies *

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Talal Asad is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His many books include Formations of the Secular (2003) and On Suicide Bombing (Columbia, 2007).

Innehållsförteckning

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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