Liberalism’s secular myth resembles but differs from Christian redemptive myth.

Evidence

I point to the violence intrinsic to it but caution that liberalism’s secular myth should not be confused with the redemptive myth of Christianity, despite a resemblance between them. … Here, as in the other cases I deal with, I simply want to get away from the idea that the secular is a mask for religion, that secular political practices often simulate religious ones. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 106

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the Cooper-style reading that would equate secular liberalism’s mythic redemptive structure with Christianity’s — Asad explicitly warns against collapsing them.