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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-71574-3
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
M.A.
Discipline of degree
East Asian Languages and Cultures
Body granting the degree
University of California, Santa Barbara
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2017
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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?"
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Religion; Cultural anthropology; Asian Studies
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Subject Term
Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;Japan;Memory;Secularism