The secular is best studied through its indirect manifestations

Evidence

But precisely for this reason, because the secular is so much part of our modern life, it is not easy to grasp it directly. I think it is best pursued through its shadows, as it were. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 75

Categorization

Category: Craft and Method

Related

• The secular is best studied indirectly through its marginal cases and shadows (similarity 0.97)
• A secular self underlies rather than results from religious experience. (similarity 0.81)
• The secular is neither a continuation nor a negation of the religious. (similarity 0.81)
• The secular is conceptually dependent on the idea of religion. (similarity 0.80)
• Secularism is not a mask for religion. (similarity 0.80)
• The secular concept precedes secularism as a political doctrine (similarity 0.79)
• Legal-institutional transformation created the social space for secularism. (similarity 0.79)
• The secular as epistemic category and secularism as doctrine need separating analytically (similarity 0.79)
• The religious and secular are not essentially fixed categories. (similarity 0.78)
• The sacred and the secular are mutually dependent concepts. (similarity 0.78)
• Secularism is an enacted political mediation that transcends particularized identities (similarity 0.78)