1809214963     

Practicing sectarianism : archival and ethnographic interventions on Lebanon / edited by Lara Deeb, Tsolin Nalbantian, and Nadya Sbaiti

Deeb, Lara, 1974- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Nalbantian, Tsolin, 1978- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Sbaiti, Nadya [Herausgeberin/-geber]

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023] [© 2023]

x, 242 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-5036-3109-0 (cloth); 978-1-5036-3386-5 (paperback)

978-1-5036-3387-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2022008364

9781503633865

OCoLC: 1351380707     

DS80.4

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*Libanon ; Sekte ; Praxis ; Interaktion      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Communalism -- Lebanon ; Communalism -- Religious aspects ; Sects -- Political aspects -- Lebanon ; Sects -- Social aspects -- Lebanon ; Lebanon -- Ethnic relations

"Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. Essays use the concept as an animating principle within a variety of sites across Lebanon and its diasporas and over a range of historical periods. With contributions from historians and anthropologists, this volume reveals the many ways sectarianism is used to exhibit, imagine, or contest power: What forms of affective pull does it have on people and communities? What epistemological work does it do as a concept? How does it function as a marker of social difference? Examining social interaction, each essay analyzes how people experience sectarianism, sometimes pushing back, sometimes evading it, sometimes deploying it strategically, to a variety of effects and consequences. The collection advances an understanding of sectarianism simultaneously constructed and experienced, a slippery and changeable concept with material effects. And even as the book's focus is Lebanon, its analysis fractures the association of sectarianism with the nation-state and suggests possibilities that can travel to other sites. Practicing Sectarianism , taken as a whole, argues that sectarianism can only be fully understood--and dismantled--if we first take it seriously as a practice"--