• Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born cultural anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies...
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  • Moorish province of Andalusia, Spain. Asad had a son, Talal Asad, from his second Saudi Arabian wife, Munira. Talal Asad is now an anthropologist specialising...
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  • Omar Asad (born 1971), Argentine footballer Sérgio Assad, Brazilian classical composer, guitarist Talal Asad, anthropologist, son of Muhammad Asad Yamil...
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  • king Talal Aklan, Yemeni politician Talal Alkernawi (born 1954), Israeli Arab politician Talal Arslan (born 1955), Lebanese politician Talal Asad (born...
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  • E. Evans Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, Clifford Geertz, and Talal Asad have all grappled with defining and characterizing religion anthropologically...
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    simply called it a "cultural system". A critique of Geertz's model by Talal Asad categorized religion as "an anthropological category". Richard Niebuhr's...
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  • and submission, and reason and embodiment. Influenced by the work of Talal Asad, she wrote on issues of gender, religious politics, secularism, and Muslim...
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    S2CID 170496549 – via JSTOR. Asad, Talal (1983). Anthropological Concepts of Religion: Reflections on Geertz. Man (N.S.) 18:237-59. Asad, Talal. 1993. "The Construction...
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  • 1973). A critique of Geertz's model by Talal Asad categorized religion as "an anthropological category." (Talal Asad, The Construction of Religion as an...
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    analysis of articles on ritual and rite in the Encyclopædia Britannica, Talal Asad notes that from 1771 to 1852, the brief articles on ritual define it as...
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     145–46. Lindbeck 1984, p. 33. Asad, Talal (1993). Genealogies of Religion. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. Asad, Talal (2003). Formations of the Secular:...
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  • "Sanskritization", "dominant caste" and "vote bank." One of his students was Talal Asad, who now teaches at the City University of New York. Mary Douglas's classic...
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    religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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    religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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    religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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  • He co-edited, with Charles Hirschkind, Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and His Interlocutors (2006). Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological...
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    religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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  • religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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    religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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    One Thousand and One Nights and French romances; Chaucer's The Squire's Tale also bears marked similarities. This becomes a parallel evolution of spells...
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    Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 18 June 2017. Asad, Talal, ed. (1973) Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter. Atlantic Highlands...
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    religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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  • religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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  • International Herald Tribune; has dual American and Pakistani citizenship Talal Asad – Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies at CUNY Farooq Azam...
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    religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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  • pluralism Restoration movement Theopoetics – Interdisciplinary field of study Talal Asad – Anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center Richard Bauckham – British...
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    Köln: Eugen Diederichs Verlag. The title means: "Eskimo tales", the series means: "The tales of world literature". Boglár, Lajos (2001). A kultúra arcai...
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    religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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    religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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    religion Elite religion Major theorists Augustin Calmet Akbar S. Ahmed Talal Asad Joseph Campbell Mary Douglas Émile Durkheim Arnold van Gennep E. E. Evans-Pritchard...
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