Talal Asad - Talal Asad (born 1932) is an anthropologist at the City University of New York.Asad has made important theoretical contributions to Post Colonialism, Christianity, Islam, and Ritual studies and has recently called for, and initiated, an anthropology of Secularism. Using a genealogical method developed by Friedrich Nietzsche and made prominent by Michel Foucault, Asad complicates terms of comparison that many anthropologists, theologians, philosophers, and political scientists receive as the unexamined background of thinking, judgment, and action as such. By doing so, he creates clearings, opening new possibilities for communication, connection, and creative invention where opposition or studied indifference prevailed. Talal Asad (born 1932) is an anthropologist at the City University of Ne...
