Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-71574-3
M.A.
East Asian Languages and Cultures
University of California, Santa Barbara
2017
In 2003, anthropologist and theorist Talal Asad published Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity. This influential work presents a genealogy of "the secular," the dialectic nature of that genealogy vis a vis that of the set of knowledges, sensibilities, policies, and affects that constitute the modern, and a response to the eminent philosopher, Charles Taylor's "Modes of Secularism" (1998). Asad focuses the project by asking, "What is the connection between the secular as an epistemic category and secularism as a political doctrine? Can they be objects of anthropological inquiry? What might an Anthropology of secularism look like?"
Religion; Cultural anthropology; Asian Studies
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Japan;Memory;Secularism