Question

A book by this thinker describes how Martin Luther King’s language of Christian redemption was more successful than Malcolm X’s idea of civil rights in permeating universalist conceptions of human rights. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this thinker who also analyzed Ahmad Safwat and Qasim Amin’s efforts to reform colonial Egypt’s legal system in Formations of the Secular.
ANSWER: Talal Asad
[10h] This 1967 work by Peter Berger interprets religion as a “plausibility structure” that vanishes with secularization. Berger later retracted many of its claims, instead claiming the world was becoming “desecularized.”
ANSWER: The Sacred Canopy
[10e] Jürgen Habermas wrote The Dialectics of Secularization along with this Catholic leader, who became the first pope emeritus in 600 years after resigning the papacy in 2013.
ANSWER: Pope Benedict XVI [accept Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger]
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Data

The Vulture's Guide to BuzzParth et al.001010
Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy StyleThe Passion According to C.H.001010
Milan et al.Cameron et al.001010