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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Talal Asad"”.
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Is There a Secular Tradition? On Treason, Government, and Truth
… it is not easy to grasp it directly,” writes Talal Asad, in the introduction to his <em>Formations of the Secular</em>. This thesis attempts to obliquely engage with secular power through a concept that has been at the center of much contention in our political present: <em>treason. …
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The Effect of Power and Colonialism on Religion and Secularization: Expanding Taylor's A Secular Age
… paper examines the views of Michel Foucault and Talal Asad on power, agency, identity and freedom through the lens of religion and the secular. This project focuses on the Native American experience to demonstrate the interface between Christian missionizing, the imposition of discipline and …
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Fallahin on Trial in Colonial Egypt: Apprehending the Peasantry through Orality, Writing, and Performance
… subject initiated by Rosalind O'Hanlon and Talal Asad, by showing how the peasants' agency paradoxically lies in their "disempowerment."
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Disciplining Religious Bodies, Forming Secular Bodies: Atatürk, Modern Power and Secular Affect
… influenced by the seminal work of Talal Asad call a "discursive-embodied" tradition. Here, I comment on several Kemalist sources of inspiration such as the journal La Turquie Kemaliste, Atatürk's Anıtkabir Mausoleum, bodies memorialized in Kemalist museums and early Republican …
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Critiquing Atomistic Individualism in Law: Rosenzweig's Beloved Soul as Open and Relational Subject
… kind of shift in our legal system, I draw on Talal Asad"s genealogical critique of the secular and Winnifred Fallers Sullivan"s critique of the First Amendment' religious freedom guarantees. In exposing both the public square and law as only apparently secular, their work helps me underscore …
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The Brahmin Problem: Charity, Expenditure and the Genealogy of Sovereignty in Travancore
… Scott, Quentin Skinner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Talal Asad, and Michel Foucault, I employ genealogy as a method to understand sovereignty as a relationship of power rather than an absolute type of power. This relationship of power is characterized by the crisis of the Brahmin Problem, giving rise …