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TALAL ASAD the ground that the population of that area is especially attached to them—that is, because they are part of its regi ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM unequal power in the formulation of public policy, the state’s claim of political neutral ...

TALAL ASAD to me uniquely embedded in a political struggle over two idealized models of France’s future, a division that cuts ac ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM Incidentally, I do not suggest that the distribution of pain engendered by modern power i ...

TALAL ASAD reflecting, as they did so, their nostalgia for a world being ravaged by modernity. The passions involved then and no ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM Sometimes the anti-Jewish acts of young Muslims are explained as a consequence of their i ...

TALAL ASAD straint and sentiment. There is much more to national emotions than selective memory and forgetting (Renan), as I sha ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM The shame-faced awareness on the part of many French that they themselves partici- pated ...

TALAL ASAD ture.’’ Thus although the Napoleonic Code allowed a man to chastise his wife physi- cally—a right abrogated only in 1 ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM this claim is right, although the game of signification is much more complicated than spo ...

TALAL ASAD Notes on the Political Theology ofLaı ̈cisme ‘‘The state’s vocation,’’ declares the Stasi report, ‘‘is to consolidate ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM the political senses. It is that body that offers the promise of freedom in the world. Th ...

TALAL ASAD sponsibility for the violence that may be done to them by men on the basis of gender difference, and that this respon ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM This theology of unity has a coherence that the political theory of equality for which it ...

TALAL ASAD thing is life in this world, human life. The worldly life of the individual is the object of protection and welfare f ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM The school is sacred because proper formation is integral to the founding myth of the sec ...

TALAL ASAD basis of which the autonomous self can make a ‘‘truly free choice’’ (moral, political, or economic). In the real worl ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM sovereign and yet obedient to the laws of the secular Republic, flexible and tolerant yet ...

TALAL ASAD I have cited Saadawi for another reason, however. Contrary to the slogan of the young demonstrators—‘‘the veil is a d ...

TRYING TO UNDERSTAND FRENCH SECULARISM secular state, it insists, ‘‘cannot be content with withdrawing from all religious and sp ...