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Secularism, identity, and enchantment /

Main Description: Bringing clarity to a subject clouded by polemic, Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment is a rigorous exploration of how secularism and identity emerged as concepts in different parts of the modern world. At a time when secularist and religious worldviews appear irreconcilable, Ake...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bilgrami, Akeel, 1950- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
Colección:Convergences (Cambridge, Mass.)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Secularism
  • Secularism: its content and context
  • Secularism and the very concept of law
  • Liberalism and the academy
  • Secular enchantment
  • Gandhi, the philosopher
  • Gandhi (and Marx)
  • The political possibilities of the long romantic period
  • Identity
  • What is a Muslim? fundamental commitment and cultural identity
  • Notes toward the definition of identity
  • After the Fatwah: twenty years of controversy
  • Reflections on Edward Said
  • Occidentalism, the very idea: an essay on the enlightenment, enchantment, and the democratic mentality
  • The freedom of beginnings
  • Edward said: an intellectual and personal tribute.