Practicing Sectarianism : Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon / edited by Lara Deeb, Tsolin Nalbantian, and Nadya Sbaiti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Deeb, Lara, 1974- editor.

Nalbantian, Tsolin, editor.

Sbaiti, Nadya, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communalism--Lebanon.

Communalism.

Communalism--Religious aspects.

Sects--Political aspects--Lebanon.

Sects.

Sects--Social aspects--Lebanon.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Practicing Sectarianism explores the imaginative and contradictory ways that people live sectarianism. The book's 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION

INTRODUCTION PRACTICING SECTARIANISM IN LEBANON

1 NO ROOM FOR THIS STORY

2 NEGOTIATING CITIZENSHIP

3 THE ARCHIVE IS BURNING

4 DONATING IN THE NAME OF THE NATION

5 ALONG AND BEYOND SECT ?

6 FROM MURDER IN NEWYORK TO SALVATION FROM BEIRUT

7 INEQUALITY AND IDENTITY

8 WHEN EXPOSURE IS NOT ENOUGH

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781503633872

150363387X

OCLC:

1350571995