Transcendence and Tradition: Two Attempts to Revive the Concept of the Secular

摘要

[...] many scholars, and especially anthropologists, have begun dismantling the "self-evident" character of the secular, revealing not only its historical particularity but also its coercive and ideological functions (Asad 2003, Mahmoud 2005, Butler 2008). First is the claim that globalization has effectively decoupled religion from culture: