Thinking about Secularism with Asad, Twenty Years after Formations

Two decades after the publication of Talal Asad's Formations of the Secular (2003), secularism is in a global state of crisis. From the standpoint of secularism's liberal proponents, the rising tide of right-wing populisms from the United States and Brazil to Eastern Europe and India threa...

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Main Author: Khan, Sohaib (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2024
In: Religion and society
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 125-128
Online Access: Presumably Free Access
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