On the Jesuit-Maronite Provenance of Lebanon's Criminalization of Homosexuality

Article 534 of the Lebanese Penal Code, effectively, criminalizes homosexual practices. Most commentators have claimed that its existence in modern Lebanon is a "colonial relic," specifically of the French Mandate, 1920-1946. But since 1791, French penal codes have not criminalized same-se...

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Main Author: Strenski, Ivan 1943- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [2020]
In: Journal of law and religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 380-406
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Lebanon / Criminal law / Homosexuality / Criminalization / Jesuits / Maroniten
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KBL Near East and North Africa
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
XA Law
Further subjects:B Lebanon
B Maronite
B Jesuit
B Aquinas
B Article 534
B Sectarianism
B conviviendum
B same-sex relations
B France
B Confessionalism
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