RT Book
T1 Secular translations: nation-state, modern self, and calculative reason
T2 Ruth Benedict Book Series
A1 Asad, Talal 1933-
LA English
PP New York
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1035330342
AB 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
AB Intro -- 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
OP 233
CN BL2747.8
SN 9780231548595
K1 Secularism
K1 Language and languages
K1 Reasoning
K1 Secularization
K1 Religion and culture
K1 State, The
K1 Electronic books