Practices and Knowledges

Talal Asad argues that, in tradition, religion is embodied in practices geared to producing particular virtues. This cultivates a subjectivity profoundly different to that engendered by modernity with its view of religion as privatised belief. This essay elaborates this Asadian theme. But it also ar...

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Main Author: Rafudeen, Auwais (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Religion & theology
Year: 2015, Volume: 22, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 153-178
IxTheo Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BJ Islam
Further subjects:B Talal Asad practices knowledges Saba Mahmood Charles Hirschkind Islam Sufism modernity
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)