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Earlier versions of several of the chapters of this book have appeared before. Thus large parts of Chapter 4 were published in “What Do Human Rights Do?” Theory and Event, vol. 4, no. 4, December 2000 (Johns Hop­kins University Press). Chapter 2 is a revised version of “Agency and Pain: An Exploration,” published in Culture and Religion, vol. 1, no. i, May 2000 (Curzon, UK). Chapter 3 is a revised and expanded version of “On Tor­ture, or Cruel, Inhuman, and Degrading Treatment,” first published in So­cial Research, vol. 63, no. 4, Winter 1996 (New School for Social Research). Chapter 5 first appeared under the title “Muslims and European Identity: Can Europe Represent Islam?” in Cultural Encounters, edited by E. Hallam and B. Street (Roudedge, 2000). Chapter 6 first appeared in Nation and Religion, edited by P. Van der Veer and H. Lehmann (Princeton, 1999). The remaining portions of the book were not published previously, al­though Chapter 1 is based on the Rappaport Annual Distinguished Lecture in the Anthropology of Religion, delivered to the Religion Section of the American Anthropological Association in March 2000, and Chapter 7 on the ISIM Annual Lecture delivered in October 2000 to the International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World in the University of Leiden.

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