Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Thinking about Secularism i

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1 What Might an Anthropology of Secularism Look Like? 21

2 Thinking about Agency and Pain 67

3 Reflections on Cruelty and Torture too

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4 Redeeming the “Human” Through Human Rights 127

5 Muslims as a “Religious Minority” in Europe 159

6 Secularism, Nation-State, Religion 181

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7 Reconfigurations of Law and Ethics in Colonial Egypt 205

Index

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