Practicing Sectarianism: Archival and Ethnographic Interventions on Lebanon

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781503633872

Related ISBNs:

9781503633865, 9781503631090

Publisher:

Stanford University Press

Date of Addition:

11/22/22

Copyrighted By:

The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University.

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Politics and Government

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Bookshare Staff

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Lara Deeb

Edited by:

Tsolin Nalbantian

Edited by:

Nadya Sbaiti