Beschreibung:
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?
Introduction: Practicing Sectarianism in Lebanon -Lara Deeb, Tsolin Nalbantian, and Nadya Sbaiti
1. No Room for This Story: Education and the Limits of Sectarianism during the Mandate Era -Nadya Sbaiti
2. Negotiating Citizenship: Shi'i Families and the Ja'fari Shari'a Courts -Linda Sayed
3. The Archive Is Burning: Law, Unknowability, and the Curation of History -Maya Mikdashi
4. Donating in the Name of the Nation: Charity, Sectarianism, and the Mahjar -Reem Bailony
5. Along and beyond Sect? Olfactory Aesthetics and Rum Orthodox Identity -Roxana Maria Arãs
6. From Murder in New York to Salvation from Beirut: Armenian Intrasectarianism -Tsolin Nalbantian
7. Inequality and Identity: Social Class, Urban Space, and Sect -Joanne Randa Nucho
8. When Exposure Is Not Enough: Sectarianism as a Response to Mixed Marriage -Lara Deeb