{"product_id":"9781350065222","title":"Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions : European Configurations","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTaking its cue from the study of 'lived religion', Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions shows how the idea of a secular public is equally marked by a display and cultivation of affect and emotions. Whereas it is widely agreed that religion is often saturated by emotion, the secular is usually treated as a neutral background serving as the domain of public, rational deliberation. This book demonstrates that secularity and secularism are also upheld by bodily practices and emotional attachments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on empirical case studies, this is the first book to ask and explore whether a secular body exists. Building on the work of Talal Asad, the book argues that the secular is not an absence of religion, but a positive entity that comes about through its co-constitutive relationship with religion. And, once we attune ourselves to recognizing its operations as grammar which structures social practice, writing an anthropology of the secular could become a new possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48949060763883,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":292.99,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/4484\/5803\/files\/9781350065222-1.jpg?v=1783098125","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.sg\/ja\/products\/9781350065222","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Singapore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}