Talal Asad – Thinking About Religion, Secularism and Politics"

Converstations with History is a series of lively and unedited video interviews in which distinguished men and women from all over the world talk about their lives and their work. CvH is produced by the Institute of International Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Guests include diplomats, statesmen, and soldiers; economists and political analysts; scientists and historians; writers and foreign correspondents; activists and artists. The interviews span the globe and include discussion of political, economic, military, legal, cultural, and social issues shaping our world. At the heart of each interview is a focus on individuals and ideas that make a difference.

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Professor Talal Asad, Professor of Anthropology at Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who reflects on his life and work as an anthropologist focusing on religion, modernity, and the complex relationships between Islam and the West.
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