anthropology of the secularattitudes towards Islamsecular sensibilitiessecularism
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Opening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism. The focus is on major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes towards Islam in the modern West and the Middle East.
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It analyzes concepts, practices, and political formations that constitute secularism rather than treating it as a single, uniform phenomenon.
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It examines how attitudes toward Islam have been influenced by changing secular formations in Western and Middle Eastern contexts.
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The book proposes an anthropological approach to studying secularism, framing 'the secular' as an object of ethnographic and conceptual inquiry.
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The work traces major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities in both the modern West and the Middle East.
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Secularism as a set of concepts, practices, and political formations
Research Subject
Historical shifts shaping secular sensibilities and attitudes towards Islam in the modern West and the Middle East
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2020-07-13
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