Mom, are we Shi'a? Neg(oti)ating Sectarian Identity in Everyday Life in Post-2011 Bahrain

Based on ethnographic fieldwork experiences in Bahrain in 2017 and 2018, but also drawing on long-term work with this country since 2003, I suggest in this article that questions of sectarianization and de-sectarianization are important, but cannot be definitely answered. While many Bahrainis identi...

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Published in:The review of faith & international affairs
Main Author: Fibiger, Thomas (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2020
In: The review of faith & international affairs
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
BJ Islam
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBL Near East and North Africa
NBE Anthropology
Further subjects:B Sectarianization
B De-sectarianization
B Everyday Life
B Anthropology
B Shi'a Muslims
B Bahrain
B 2011 Uprising
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Summary:Based on ethnographic fieldwork experiences in Bahrain in 2017 and 2018, but also drawing on long-term work with this country since 2003, I suggest in this article that questions of sectarianization and de-sectarianization are important, but cannot be definitely answered. While many Bahrainis identify strongly as either Sunni or Shi'a Muslims, at the same time they highlight that this should not be all that defines them, and that de-, cross- or non-sectarian relations are both possible and important, also and not least in the wake of the ill-fated uprising in 2011.
ISSN:1931-7743
Contains:Enthalten in: The review of faith & international affairs
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/15570274.2020.1729523