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Talal Asad is a socio-cultural anthropologist, renowned for his contributions and research on the phenomenon of religion and secularism, and the religious revival in the Middle East. He discusses the attempts to define religion, the shifting place of "belief" in that endeavor, and some of its implications for politics. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate Council Lectures [12/2008] [Humanities] [Show ID: 15122]

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  • "Secular Christianity" is an oxymoron.

    Richard Niebuhr described the social gospel as follows:

    "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross."

  • whoever thumbed you down, beancube, should be ashamed of himself/herself. you are 100% right, religion diminishes society, and only education and the willingness to be open-minded are the real benefiting factors of a society

  • I hope there isn't a quiz after this lecture. I have no idea what he is talking about. Dang!

  • All men are not created equal in all our religion history. Equality is our only righteous creation against previously created religion believes of in-equality.

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