Shiʻite Lebanon: transnational religion and the making of national identities
"By recasting the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East, Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr proposes a new framework for understanding Shi'ite politics in Lebanon. Her study draws on a variety of untapped sources, reconsidering not only the politics of the established l...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York
Columbia University Press
2008
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| In: | Year: 2008 |
| Series/Journal: | History and society of the modern Middle East
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| Further subjects: | B
Shiites
Political activity (Lebanon)
B Lebanon Politics and government 1990- B Lebanon Ethnic relations B Shīʻah (Lebanon) |
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| Summary: | "By recasting the relationship between religion and nationalism in the Middle East, Roschanack Shaery-Eisenlohr proposes a new framework for understanding Shi'ite politics in Lebanon. Her study draws on a variety of untapped sources, reconsidering not only the politics of the established leadership of Shi'ites but also institutional and popular activities of identity production. Shaery-Eisenlohr traces current Shi'ite politics of piety and authenticity to the coexistence formula in Lebanon and argues that engaging in the discourses of piety and coexistence is a precondition to cultural citizenship in Lebanon. As she demonstrates, debates over the nature of Christianity and Islam and Christian-Muslim dialogue are in fact intertwined with power struggles at the state level. Since the 1970s, debates in the transnational Shi'ite world have gradually linked Shi'ite piety with the support of the Palestinian cause. Iran's religious elite has backed this piety project in multiple ways, but in doing so it has assisted in the creation of a variety of Lebanese Shi'ite nationalisms with competing claims to religious and national authenticity. Shaery-Eisenlohr argues that these ties to Iran have in fact strengthened the position of Lebanese Shi'ites by providing, as is recognized, economic, military, and ideological support for Hizbullah, as well as by compelling Lebanese Shi'ites to foreground the Lebanese components of their identity more forcefully than ever before"--Jacket Claiming cultural citizenship in Lebanon, from margin to center -- The nation in the making -- Two nations and one state : Shiʻite and Maronite Lebanon -- Schooling and the creation of Lebanese Shiʻite public identity -- Transnational debates and local struggles -- Shiʻite piety and the Palestinian cause : the history of a discourse -- The politics of Shiʻite authenticity since 1982 -- Iranian cultural politics in Lebanon |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| ISBN: | 0231144261 |