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BL
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876625
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Asad, Talal.
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| Title & Author
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Secular translations : : nation-state, modern self, and calculative reason /\ Talal Asad.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Columbia University Press,, ©2018
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| Series Statement
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Ruth Benedict book series
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1 online resource (222 pages)
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| ISBN
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0231189869
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: 0231189877
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: 0231548591
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: 9780231189866
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: 9780231189873
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: 9780231548595
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9780231189866
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9780231189873
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Secular equality and religious language -- Translation and the sensible body -- Masks, security, and the language of numbers -- Epilogue.
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| Abstract
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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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Language and languages.
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Reasoning.
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Religion and culture.
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Secularism.
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Secularization.
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State, The.
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Language and languages.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.
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Reasoning.
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Religion and culture.
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Secularism.
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Secularization.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.
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State, The.
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| Dewey Classification
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306.6
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| LC Classification
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BL2747.8.A755 2018eb
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