Living in Refuge: Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon

Leonardo Schiocchet

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2022

Living in Refuge

Ritualization and Religiosity in a Christian and a Muslim Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon

Leonardo Schiocchet
Funded by: Austrian Science Fund - FWF (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung)

Volume 2 in the series Forced Migration Studies Series

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839460740

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About this book

This comparative ethnography of a Muslim and a Christian Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon focuses on contrasting social belonging processes through a ritualization approach. Leonardo Schiocchet argues that contrasts emerge out of the intersectionality of religiosity, nationhood, refugeeness and politics, and synthesizes academic research on piety and moral self-cultivation and on the everyday-life of religious communities. He contributes to the literature on refugees at large, and Palestinian refugees in special, with the unique dense socio-historical portrait of two refugee camps for which there is almost no recorded literature.

Author / Editor information

Leonardo Schiocchet has a Ph.D. in anthropology (Boston University, 2011) and is currently a researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) at Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW). He is a member of ROR-n, P.I. of the FWF project »The Austro-Arab Encounter« (AUSARAB, 2018-2022). Since 2005, his work has focused on social belonging processes among Arab forced migrants.

Reviews

"The book clearly illustrates and deconstructs how religion, nation politics, identity, and belonging can be integrated into the daily life of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. This is a must read for anyone interested in gaining a deep insight into Palestinian lives in refuge in Lebanon." (Dawn Chatty, Emerita Professor of Anthropology and Forced Migration, University of Oxford)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	7
Chapter 1: A Disposition toward Suspicion Open Access Download PDF	37
Part I – The Refuge: Nationhood & Religion
Chapter 2: Settling in Lebanon: An Oral Historical Account Open Access Download PDF	57
Chapter 3: Ritual Tempo in Al-Jalil Open Access Download PDF	83
Chapter 4: Ritual Tempo in Dbayeh Open Access Download PDF	113
Part II – Ritual, Time and Resistance
Chapter 5: On Ritual, Religion, and Time Open Access Download PDF	157
Chapter 6: Al-ṣumūd: Sacralization and Ritualization of Palestinianness Open Access Download PDF	183
Chapter 7: Economies of Trust Open Access Download PDF	201
8. Conclusion Open Access Download PDF	231
References Open Access Download PDF	239
Index Open Access Download PDF	252

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Keywords: Palestinians; Ritualization; Religiosity; Intersectionality; Fleeing; Migration; Religion; Refugee Studies; Sociology of Religion; Islamic Studies; Religious Studies

eBook

Published: March 27, 2022
ISBN: 9783839460740