Introduction -- Secular equality and religious language -- Translation and the sensible body -- Masks, security, and the language of numbers -- Epilogue.
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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.
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Title
Secular Translations : Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Language and languages.
Reasoning.
Religion and culture.
Secularism.
Secularization.
State, The.
Language and languages.
PHILOSOPHY-- Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.