Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit , Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit, and Religion and Secularism and Secularity Unit

Formations of the Secular (for possible cosponsorship)

To mark the 30th anniversary of Talal Asad’s Genealogies of Religion and the 20th anniversary of his Formations of the Secular, we invite scholars of religion to critically reflect on the impact of these influential works on the study of religion, to reengage with them in light of subsequent works addressing the secular or post-secular, or to delineate new lines of inquiry in studies of the secular.