In Secular Translations, the anthropologist Talal Asad reflects on his lifelong engagement with secularism and its contradictions. He draws out the ambiguities

Like many people in America and around the world, Talal Asad experienced the events of September 11, 2001, largely through the media and the emotional response

“A dark but brilliantly original work . . . one of the most important books on religion and the modern in recent years.” —H-Net Reviews Opening with the p

An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality Immortality has long been considered the domain of religion. But immortality projects have gained in

In Geneologies of Religion, Talal Asad explores how religion as a historical category emerged in the West and has come to be applied as a universal concept. The