ISBN:
9781503631090
,
9781503633865
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 242 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
DDC:
302/.14095692
Keywords:
Communalism
;
Communalism Religious aspects
;
Sects Political aspects
;
Sects Social aspects
;
Lebanon Ethnic relations
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Libanon
;
Sekte
;
Praxis
;
Interaktion
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
