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Title
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Islam and the politics of enchantment
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Secularism, Education
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Description
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The North American public sphere is suffused with claims and counterclaims about the relationship between Islam and violence. Schools and publishers have responded with training programs for teachers and curriculum units for students introducing t...
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The varieties of secular experience
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Date Created
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2010
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Subjects--Topical
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Secularism, Religion
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Description
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Taking the Egyptian case as an example, this article examines secularism (and its cognates secularity and the secular), not so much as a failed social project, but as a problematic concept. Reflecting on the on-going scholarly interest in the noti...
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Who put the "secular" in "secular state"?
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Author
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Starrett, Gregory, 1961-
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Date Created
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1999
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Subjects--Topical
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Islam, Secularism
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Description
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In this essay I hope to add an anthropological voice to the conversation about political Islam, one which seeks its context not in relation to some underdefined “non-political” or “traditional” or “pure” Islam, whatever those might look like, but ...