RT Book
T1 Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason
T2 Ruth Benedict Book Series
A1 Asad, Talal
LA English
PP New York
PB Columbia University Press
YR 2018
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1687044465
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
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
NO Description based upon print version of record
CN BL2747.8
SN 0231548591
SN 9780231548595
K1 Reasoning
K1 Secularization
K1 Religion and culture
K1 State, The
K1 Language and languages
K1 Secularism
K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
K1 PHILOSOPHY ; Political