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Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born cultural anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His prolific body of work mainly focuses on religiosity, Middle Eastern studies, postcolonialism, and notions of power ...
- Formations of the Secular (2003)
- E. E. Evans-Pritchard
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27 feb 2015 · Education. D.Phil., Oxford University. At the Graduate Center since 1998, Talal Asad is a sociocultural anthropologist of international stature specializing in the anthropology of religion with a special interest in the Middle East and Islam.
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Talal Asad - Anthropology PhD Program. (PhD Oxford, 1968; Dist Prof) Religion and secularism, Islamic traditions, political theories; Middle East (tasad@gc.cuny.edu) Research interests. I am interested in the phenomenon of religion (and secularism) as an integral part of modernity, and especially in the religious revival in the Middle East.
TALAL ASAD For three decades, Talal Asad's work on the question of religion, and on the entanglements of this question with the sensibilities of modern life, has steadily overturned dominant paradigms in anthropology. Critiquing the textualization of social life, his work has redirected analysis away from
InSecular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities i...
For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West’s knowledges—especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges—of the non-Western world.
The work of Talal Asad, in particular his two landmark volumes Ge- nealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam (1993) and Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (2004), has given new life to critical study of secularism and the idea of “religion” across the disciplines of anthropology ...
