Talal Asad: Thinking about Religion Belief and Politics

By QuiQui

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A lecture recently given at Berkeley by Talal Asad.

Talal Asad is a socio-cultural anthropologist, renowned for his contributions and research on the phenomenon of religion and secularism, and the religious revival in the Middle East. He discusses the attempts to define religion, the shifting place of “belief” in that endeavor, and some of its implications for politics.

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  1. Joachim Martillo
    November 25, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    I mention Talal Asad in Jacob Lassner and Nadia Abu el-Haj.

    Lassner is a Northwestern professor and a Zionist propagandist. He misquotes Asad in order to attack Columbia Professor Nadia Abu el-Haj.

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  2. sunbula
    November 25, 2008 at 5:36 pm

    thank you so much for this, quiq!

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